Despite her poor health, a female member of The Church of Almighty Gold is still detained in Sichuan. A female member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, is still detained in Chengdu, Sichuan, more than one month after her arrest,...
In 2014, China launched a massive international fake news campaign to attribute to The Church of Almighty God a homicide actually perpetrated by a different religious movement. At the XIX World Congress of Sociology, the largest gathering of sociologists in the...
The local government forcibly destroyed a Three-Self church in a village of Henan Province for being taller than the local committee building. Authorities of the Zhaihouchen village of Jian’an district in the city of Xuchang demolished a government-approved Three-Self...
Sources from Yining city report about further measures against Islam in Xinjiang, and new “transformation through education” camps being built. Bitter Winter continues to receive reports from Xinjiang about the massive crackdown on the local Muslim population,...
More information has been revealed about the arrest of 500 members of The Church of Almighty God on June 26-28 in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party authorities’ massive crackdown on The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...
Bitter Winter has uncovered information that the preparations for the massive arrests of believers in Almighty God in Liaoning, on June 26-28, had been taking place since early spring. A large-scale “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province resulted in the arrest of...
In a high-profile trial, a Chinese Muslim woman, who is an ethnic Kazakh and escaped to Kazakhstan with false documents, is threatened with repatriation to China.
Bitter Winter has received a secret Communist Party document with a plan to close down churches and religious meeting places in Liaoning Province. Since February 2018, following the implementation of the new national Regulations on Religious Affairs, authorities in...
On July 14, the city of Xuzhou issued a notice reporting that from mid-May to mid-June, 32 members of The Church of Almighty God were arrested in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, 15 of them are still being detained. The Jiangsu police have been carrying out province-wide,...
Since spring 2017, Chinese authorities have increased their suppression efforts against Islam, demolishing innumerable mosques and sending Muslims to re-education camps. Recently, a Bitter Winter reporter visited the sites of six demolished mosques in the city of...