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US Defends Uyghurs at the United Nations

US Defends Uyghurs at the United Nations

Source: Foreign Affairs Date: May 26, 2018 Foreign Affairs reports on changing patterns in the United States’ official attitude toward China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. In the years following 9/11, the US and China found a common enemy in the Uyghurs as the United...

Authorities Shut Down a Korean House Church in Yunnan

Authorities Shut Down a Korean House Church in Yunnan

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 25, 2018 In the morning of March 22, 2018, over 100 police officers and officials from various departments surrounded a house church established by Koreans in the Yirenwaitan residential community in the county-level city of...

Petition to Free Falun Gong Prisoners

Petition to Free Falun Gong Prisoners

Source: ChinaAid Date: May 23, 2018 ChinaAid reports that lawyers of Falun Gong practitioner Sun Qian, a Canadian citizen jailed in China for her religious practices, issued a petition appealing to Canadian officials and citizens to pay closer attention to the crimes...

Elderly Christian Arrested for Religious Videos   

Elderly Christian Arrested for Religious Videos   

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 Bitter Winter continuously receives direct reports from China about the government’s activities to crack down on various religions in the country. Quite often, the ways the authorities harass the believers is hard...

Member of the Shouters Detained in Yantai, Shandong

Member of the Shouters Detained in Yantai, Shandong

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 21, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned about the arrest of a member of the Shouters – Christians in the tradition of Chinese preachers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee that have been long targeted by the Chinese Government. After...