Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force on February 1, 2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified the persecution of religious beliefs by seizing and demolishing churches and...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 The increased crackdown on religion this year in China does not only restricts believers from following their faith but also severely infringes on individual liberties. The Communist Party’s draconian measures are...
Source: United Nations Website Date: June 14, 2018 At the Thirty-eight Session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, which starts in Geneva on June 18, the NGO CAP-LC, which enjoys consultative ECOSOC status at the UN, filed a document denouncing the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 14, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received information about events surrounding the arrest of almost 20 members of a house church in the Dadong District of the city of Shenyang, which the police raided in January this year....
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 14, 2018 Bitter Winter has recently received an account about the death of a 52-year-old house church member in January 2016. Ji Yuxin from Sijia Township in the city of Beipiao, Liaoning Province, joined the church in 1998...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 14, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prohibits its members from having religious beliefs and demands to expel those who belong to religious organizations. Even family members of CCP card holders are discouraged from...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 14, 2018 Last week, Bitter Winter published an article by its Editor-in-Chief, Massimo Introvigne, about de-programming camps for the so-called “religious extremists” where the Chinse Communist Party “re-educates through...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 13, 2018 Since April this year, Korean missionaries in various parts of China have experienced increased scrutiny and harassment resulting in the closure of Koreans Christian churches. The crackdown intensified after the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 13, 2018 On May 11, the Communist Party police raided a Catholic church in Helong town, Nong’an County, Changchun city, Jilin Province, and arrested nine nuns. Since the raid, the church, which is part of the so-called...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, is now regarded by the Chinese Communist Party as its number one enemy. It is listed as a xie jiao (“heterodox teaching,”) which means that...