Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 The public security police, the SWAT police and urban management officers from Jilin Province’s Jilin city seized a church near a residential community called “Beijijiayuan” on May 8, taking away four Christians. At...
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Christian Anti-Abortion Protesters Detained in Guangdong
Source: ChinaAid Date: June 8, 2018 The police in China’s southern Guangdong province detained a Christian couple that was advocating against abortion in a local park last Friday, reports ChinaAid. Liang Ziliang, a preacher at a Baptist Church in Heshan, Guangdong,...
Police Close the Early Rain Covenant Church
Source: Asia News Date: June 6, 2018 On Monday, the police in Chengdu, Sichuan closed the Early Rain Covenant Church and detained its pastor Wang Yi, his wife, and a dozen preachers and worshipers. The church planned to hold a special prayer service that evening...
China’s Got Talent? CCP Shopping for Pro-Regime Religious Personnel
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 5, 2018 Bitter Winter has received a copy of a confidential circular letter titled “Suggestions on Strengthening and Improving Islamic Work Under the New Circumstances,” issued on April 19, 2018, by the General Office of...
Church of Almighty God Refugee Arrested Upon Her Return to China
Source: Human Rights Without Frontiers and Direct Reports from China Date: June 5, 2018 As reported in an article of Human Rights Without Frontiers, on May 23, 2018, Yang Shihua, a Chinese member of the Christian new religious movement The Church of Almighty God, was...
Atrocities of Political Training Centers for Ethnic Minorities
Source: ChinaAid Date: June 5, 2018 ChinaAid reports on the atrocities in the so-called “political training center” for ethnic minorities in China’s northwest Xinjiang. A Kazakh Muslim prisoner, just released after a year in one of such centers, describes the horrors...
China’s “Official” Religions Support the New Constitution
Source: Islamic Association of China Date: June 4, 2018 The website of the Islamic Association of China reported about the 5th Joint Meeting of the National Religious Groups, held in Beijing on May 31. The theme of the meeting was, “studying the Amendments to the...
Government Incites Villagers to Block Believers From Entering a New Church
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 3, 2018 On May 19, 2018, about 200 believers from Xiangning County, which is part of the prefecture-level city of Linfen, Shanxi Province, gathered at Yingli village to attend an inauguration of the new church building to...
Three Members of The Church of Almighty God Arrested in Chengdu, Sichuan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 3, 2018 On May 3, 2018, the Communist Party police arrested three members of the Christian new religious movement The Church of Almighty God (CAG) while having a meeting in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The police...
College Islamic Canteen Forbidden to Use Arabic
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 3, 2018 A college in the city of Xinxiang, Henan replaced the menu and the signboard of its canteen for minority ethnic students deleting the words in Arabic and leaving only Chinese characters. This is one more example of...

