Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 21, 2018 Since the Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force in February 2018, the Chinese Communist government has been strengthening its control and repression of Xinjiang’s Muslim religion and culture under the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 20, 2018 On May 1, Bitter Winter reported that the government demanded installation of surveillance cameras in Beijing Zion Church. After the Church manifested its dissatisfaction with the government’s decision, its water...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 20, 2018 On April 16, 2018, a township government in the city of Shangqiu, Henan, forcibly demolished a church under the excuse of building a culture square. At around 4 p.m., two excavators parked in front of the church,...
Source: ChinaAid Date: May 18, 2018 The local governments in Xinjiang have forbidden all celebrations of the holy month of Ramadan that started this week, reports ChinaAid. Muslims from the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Changji, and other districts in Xinjiang,...
Source: Associated Press Date: May 18, 2018 Associated Press reports that, since last spring, Chinese authorities in the region of Xinjiang have imprisoned large numbers of Muslim Chinese in mass internment camps, where detainees are made to disavow their Islamic...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 18, 2018 Bitter Winter received information that government officials in Luohe city, Henan Province, forced believers in Three-Self churches to sign the statement of guarantee and renounce their belief, threatening them to...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 18, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned that at about 2 p.m. on April 15, 2018, the police raided a local church in the city of Bengbu, Anhui, arresting more than ten believers who attended the meeting. According to inside...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 18, 2018 Sources from mainland China report that the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Religious Affairs jointly...
Source: South China Morning Post Date: May 17, 2018 South China Morning Post reports about the Chinese Government’s campaign to rid the northwestern Ningxia Hui autonomous region of what it regards as a worrying trend of Islamisation and Arabisation. The clampdown is...
Source: CNN Date: May 17, 2018 CNN reports about the Chinese government's decision to send over a million Communist Party officials to live with Uyghur Muslim families in the western region of Xinjiang. Families will have to provide detailed information on their daily...