Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 An 80-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God suffered a nervous breakdown after continued threats and harassment from the police. The constant intimidation, which continues for over five years, is putting a...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Last year, government officials in the township of Yugan in the city of Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, ordered a local Three-Self Church that belongs to the official united Protestant church controlled by the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Four members of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, were gathering in one of their homes in the city of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province when a neighbor reported on them to the police,...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Hao Qingguo is the leader of all the congregations of the Shouters, an Evangelical Christian group known in the West as the Local Church, in Jilin Province. In February 2018, the 59-year-old priest was arrested...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Four years ago, Chinese law enforcement authorities placed a 55-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, from the city of Shangrao in Jiangxi Province on the most-wanted...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 A couple from the city of Linfen in Shanxi Province, members of The Church of Almighty God- a Christian new religious movement, has been listed as wanted persons by the Chinese Communist Party police because of...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Surveilled and chased after by the Communist Party authorities for her religious beliefs, 49-year-old house church leader from Huancui District in the city of Weihai, Shandong Province was forced to flee her home...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Bitter Winter reported earlier about the destruction of a Roman Catholic Way of the Cross in Henan Province. In the evening of June 5, officials ordered excavators and other heavy machinery to destroy the monuments...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Five students from the Gongyi City First Secondary Professional School in Henan Province were taken to a police station for sharing a humorous message with "religious" content on WeChat - highly popular instant...
Source: Direct reports from NGOs Date: June 21, 2018 On June 20, 2018, during the yearly conference of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, which is taking place in Nantou, Taiwan, Professor Massimo Introvigne, editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter reviewed the...