Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) raided the home of a Christian couple in Beigucheng town, Yiliang County, Yunnan Province’s Kunming city, in October 2017. Without a warrant, the police confiscated large amounts of...
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Over 400 Uyghur Women Detained in Unbearable Conditions
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 Chinese Communist authorities have created an immense network of “re-education” camps for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang since the beginning of its massive “sinicization of religion” campaign. Presented as the...
Bitter Winter’s Rosita Šorytė Calls for Protection of Church of Almighty God Refugees in Brussels
Source: Alliance of Conservative and Reformists in Europe Date: June 30, 2018 Members of the European Parliament, NGOs, and international institutions expressed great interest for the first Faith and Freedom Summit organized by the Alliance of Conservative and...
House Church Leader in Gansu Tortured to Death for His Belief
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 A house church leader was forcibly arrested in Longxi County, Dingxi city, Gansu Province in April of 2015. He died in a detention center after prolonged torture. Lin Suidan (45) was a house church leader in Longxi...
Xinjiang Police Sends Dozens of Muslims to “Re-Education” Camps
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang Province have been suffering intense persecution with huge numbers of persons detained and locked up in the so-called re-education camps under the pretext of fight against terrorism....
Authorities Closed Down Many Buddhist Temples in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 In recent months, Chinese authorities closed down many Buddhist temples in Henan Province’s Gongyi city. In late March 2018, more than a thousand-year-old Luohan Temple in Jiajinkou town was forcibly closed down as...
Official Document Reveals the Campaign to Demolish Crosses
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 Fifty-one crosses have been taken down from Christian sites of worship in the city of Gongyi, Henan Province until early June 2018, states the Special Operation Briefing, a copy of which Bitter Winter has received....
Three Christians From the Same Family Arrested and Imprisoned, One Remain in Custody
The Chinese Communist Party police arrested three Christians from the same family in Tianfan town, Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, in 2015. The daughter is still in custody.
Seven Jilin Christians Forced to Undergo Intense Indoctrination
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 28, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned about the arrest and detention of seven Christians from a house church in the city of Meihekou, Jilin Province, two years ago. They were sent to a conversion class to undergo intense...
Five Shanghai House Church Christians Arrested and Still Held in Detention
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 28, 2018 The Shanghai police arrested five Christians from two house churches in April and May. All of them remain in custody. On April 25, 2018, the police detained and arrested Chen Wenfang, a 58-year-old Christian with a...
