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...
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....
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...
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....
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.
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...
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...
Source: Direct reports from Italy Date: June 28, 2018 On June 27, the Justice Court of Perugia in Italy published two orders, no. 462/2018 and no. 459/2018, granting refugee status to two female members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...
Source: Human Rights Without Frontiers, CESNUR Date: June 27, 2018 The situation of religious liberty in China is the worst ever since the Cultural Revolution. At least one and a half million believers are in jail or in “Transformation Through Education” camps simply...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 On July 3, 2017, two members of an underground house church in Yuncheng city, Shanxi Province were arrested by the police on their way home from sharing the Gospel in Xinjiang County, Yuncheng City. They were then...