Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Bitter Winter has reported repeatedly about the persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang. However, religious persecution in Xinjiang also targets Christians, according to reports and documents we keep receiving. Officers...
A small Three-Self Church in Henan Province, fell victim to the Chinese Communist Party’s large-scale persecution of religions.
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 17, 2018 In May 2018, China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs issued an administrative measure forbidding foreigners from organizing religious activities and restricting Chinese citizens’ participation in them....
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 17, 2018 Xie jiao, a term wrongly translated as “evil cults,” but in fact meaning “heterodox teachings,” are religious movements included by the regime in its periodically updated list of banned groups. Those active in a...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 Recently, Bitter Winter has received reports and photographic evidence from Fujian Province about an incident that happened in 2016, which proves that not even the communities belonging to the Three-Self Church,...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 In the afternoon of April 15, 2018, four members of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement founded in China in 1991, in the city of Xinyi, Jiangsu Province, were having a meeting in the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 Bitter Winter has received reports of continuous harassment of communities of the Shouters, Christians, in the tradition of Chinese preachers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, that the Chinese Government has been...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received an account from four house church members from a village in Jilin Province about their persecution for religious beliefs that has been continuing for three years. At 9 o’clock on...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 As part of the intensified campaign to crack down on religious freedoms, Chinese authorities have recently banned the sale of the Holy Bible in the country. Christians have reported being unable to buy it online or...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 Persecution of religious groups in China, especially those that the government tags as “evil cults” quite often results in detention and arrest of believers causing severe consequences for them and their family...