Seven out of eight mosques in one of the areas of Lianmuqin town in Xinjiang have been demolished; the remaining one is strictly supervised. According to a local source, seven of the eight mosques in the Shanshan county’s 11th Brigade of Lianmuqin town, have already...
Recently, Bitter Winter received information that Islamic symbols on the buildings in a farmers’ market in Wuzhong city, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, were all taken down. The Clear Water Bay market in Tongxin county, located in a Hui neighborhood, occupies an area...
Venerable Xuecheng, the abbott of Beijing’s Longquan Temple and the President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, a staunch supporter of the CCP, is investigated for sexual abuse. Is the CCP protecting Xuecheng or trying to get rid of him for political reasons? On...
The pastor, whose wife is American, has been sentenced to seven years for illegal border crossing between China and the non-recognized “Wa State” in Burma. China Aid has launched an online petition asking the White House and the U.S. government to intensify their...
The Chinese government expands the network of “transformation through education camps” in Xinjiang. Bitter Winter has obtained videos and photos showing the outside of these facilities. Bitter Winter reported in July that the Chinese Communist Party had repurposed the...
In a decision awaited with interest in political and diplomatic circles, the Court of Zharkent, Kazakhstan, has ruled that a Chinese Muslim woman, who entered the country illegally, should not be deported to China, where she would face imprisonment and torture. Bitter...
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...