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Bitter Winter

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06/20/2018 Bitter Winter

Catholic Priest Persecuted for Over 60 Years

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 20, 2018 Han Jingtao is currently 97-years-old. He is a priest of a so-called “underground” Catholic church from Bairin Right Banner in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. As a priest of the church whose bishops are appointed by the Vatican, not the government-controlled Catholic Patriotic Association, Father Han has […]

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06/20/2018 Bitter Winter

Member of The Church of Almighty God Tortured for Eight Days

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 20, 2018 In April 2018, Zheng Xin (pseudonym), a 42-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, from Pizhou in Jiangsu Province, was unlawfully detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police. She was subjected to torture and indoctrination for eight days. She […]

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06/19/2018 Bitter Winter

Catholic Church in Henan Vandalized, Priest Arrested and Forced to Leave China

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 In December of 2017, a Catholic “underground” church in the Weibin District of the city of Xinxiang in Henan Province set up a youth fellowship. Catholic underground churches belong to the clandestine Catholic organization in China whose bishops are appointed by the Vatican, as opposed to […]

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06/19/2018 Bitter Winter

Catholic Priest Detained for Plans to Discuss Proposed China-Vatican Agreement

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 The agreement currently being discussed between China and the Vatican on the appointment of Catholic bishops has been and still is a topic of particularly great interest and concern for Catholic clergy and believers in China. Bitter Winter has received information about the surveillance and arrest of a […]

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06/19/2018 Bitter Winter

Party Official Organized Convicted Offenders to Beat Up Believers in Church

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 A senior Chinese Communist Party Official in the city of Zhoukou, Henan Province organized offenders serving their sentence outside of prison to go to a Three-Self Protestant church and beat up believers, intimidating them to give up their faith.

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06/19/2018 Bitter Winter

Police Extorts Money from Families Persecuted for Religious Belief

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 Two relatives from Shandong Province have paid a harsh price for their religious beliefs: a long-term prison sentence for one and living in hiding for the other. The police tried to extort money from the families of both men.

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06/18/2018 Bitter Winter

Police Keeps Believers in Fear of Persecution After Church Leader’s Arrest

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 The police arrested a house church leader in Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County in the city of Dandong, Liaoning Province, almost three years ago. During the arrest, in the house of the preacher, they found a list of members of house church who live in the area. […]

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06/18/2018 Bitter Winter

Ten House Church Members Still Detained After Arrest in March

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Ten house church members were arrested on March 2, in Shandong Province’s Qihe County, the city of Dezhou, and are still kept in detention for more than three months after their arrest.

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06/18/2018 Bitter Winter

Three Shouters’ Leaders From Shandong Persecuted For Years

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Three leaders of the Shouters Christian community in the city of Yantai, Shandong Province, have been persecuted and arrested over the time period of a few years. Their stories serve as examples of Chinese government’s crackdown on religious minorities that has recently intensified. 

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