Bitter Winter has received and publishes a confidential document detailing how the persecution of the movements listed as xie jiao (“heterodox teachings”) should be conducted between April 2018 and January 2019. The Church of Almighty God is the primary target. Xie...
At a side event during the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, doctors report about organs being removed from Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and other prisoners of conscience in China, and used for transplant. In 2006, reports that corneas were being removed from Falun...
The U.S. Congressional Commission on China, chaired by Senator Marco Rubio, heard experts and witnesses on the growing persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. During the week of the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a gathering of more than 80 Foreign...
Eyewitnesses reveal that a vocational training center has been turned into a “transformation through education” camp in Bole city, Xinjiang. Informed sources report that a vocational training center located at No. 13 Qiancheng Road, Nancheng in Xinjiang’s Bole has...
Court of Appeal in Lincang, Yunnan, confirms heavy prison sentences for Christians accused of being members of a banned movement they insist they never heard of. On May 3, 2018, Bitter Winter reported that house church Christians in Yunnan were being arrested and...
Authorities in Shihezi, Xinjiang ordered the demolition of mosques and later rebuilt some of them as plain-looking bunkhouses without any identifying symbols. According to an insider in Shihezi, the local government ordered to close down all mosques in the city,...
Ambassador Brownback and witnesses denounce Chinese repression of religious liberty at the Washington D.C. Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. At the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a gathering of foreign ministers of 80 countries organized by the U.S....
The first side event of a week centered on the meeting of 80 foreign ministers in Washington D.C. was hosted by Bitter Winter and devoted to the persecution of Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and The Church of Almighty God in China. 80 foreign ministers arrived in Washington DC...
Authorities in Zhejiang Province prohibited holy names and religious terms on boats, ordering their owners to paint them over. In June 2018, the Fishery Administration Station in Songmen, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province was ordered to refer boats marked with religious...
Massive arrests against The Church of Almighty God continue in Heze, Rizhao, Zibo, Weifang, and other cities in Shandong Province. Since April of this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has launched a massive organized operation cracking down on The...