Over 100 members of The Church of Almighty God have been arrested in the city of Chongqing since this April. The whereabouts of 40 detainees remain unknown; seven reported to have been tortured. According to government insiders, as early as the beginning of 2018, the...
According to an article published in the authoritative Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, The Church of Almighty God actually has a positive view of the family and members are often converted by their relatives. The Interdisciplinary Journal of...
Following the directives of a confidential document, excerpts of which we publish below, a massive campaign of fake news is launched in South Korea to persuade the local authorities to deport the refugees of The Church of Almighty God back to China. Bitter Winter...
A Griffith University lecturer, accused of being “in China’s pocket” for his attempts to deny that organs of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience are “harvested,” is being investigated and banned from traveling abroad. He denies all charges. Australian media report that...
The government has dismissed leaders of official churches in Henan for not implementing central government policies sufficiently. After the implementation of the new Regulations on Religious Affairs, Cultural Revolution-style religious management policies are back in...
Bitter Winter has received a classified document revealing the organized crackdown on The Church of Almighty God in Henan. The document, issued by an office that deals with the prevention of heterodox religious movements in one of Henan’s cities, states that The...
Schools and other state-owned buildings in Wusu city, Xinjiang, are being converted into “transformation through education” camps for Uyghur Muslims. According to an informed source, a Party school in Wusu has recently been turned into a “transformation through...
Since the arrests of reporters did not stop Bitter Winter, China escalates the campaign against our magazine and adopts extraordinary measures to prevent the leaks of secret documents. Bitter Winter reported on August 1 that several reporters that have sent...
On August 2, Pope Francis declared the death penalty “always inadmissible” and promised a vigorous action by the Catholic Church to eliminate it throughout the world. At least 60% of the world’s executions every year happen in China. On August 2, 2018, the Vatican...
Germany plans to deport back to China a member of The Church of Almighty God detained in Ingelheim. Nine NGOs tell Chancellor Merkel that in China she will be arrested and may be tortured. Nine NGOs active in the field of religious liberty wrote on August 1 to German...