Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 28, 2018 On April 28, a private school established by the Rock Church in Zhengzhou, Henan, organized a park trip for students. When the children were dancing to praise the Lord, the park staff interrupted them and threatened...
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Government Demolishes Iron Shack Used for Church Meetings
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 28, 2018 Local authorities forcibly dismantled a 200-square-meter iron shack built for religious meetings by Three-Self church believers in Fuqing, Fujian. At present, over a hundred believers, most of whom are aged, have...
Police Raided a House Church, Arresting Seven Christians
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 28, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned that, on May 6, 2018, the police raided a house church meeting place in Xiaoguan, a town in Henan near the city of Gongyi, arresting seven Christians. At about 2 p.m. that day, four...
21 Japanese Arrested in China for Preaching
Source: Asahi Shimbun and Direct Reports from China Date: May 27, 2018 Since the newly revised Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect in February 2018, Chinese authorities have strengthened their suppression of both Chinese and foreign religious groups. On...
Government Officials Tore Off Religious Posters From Christian House
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 26, 2018 A source told Bitter Winter that, on May 6, 2018, government officials in the county of Mianchi, Henan, broke into a Christian’s house and ravaged religious possessions. A little past 11:00 a.m, Fan Yuling...
Young Christian Banned from Celebration in School
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 27, 2018 Recently, Bitter Winter has received many reports of discrimination against Christian students in public schools. On April 27, 2018, Wang Chenyang (pseudonym, male, 13 years old), a 5th grader in the city of...
Italian Court Acknowledges Persecution of The Church of Almighty God in China, Rejects Accusations of Crimes as Fake News
Source: Direct information from Italy Date: May 26, 2018 On May 22, 2018, the Justice Court of Perugia, Italy, annulled a decision by an administrative commission, that had denied an asylum request by a female member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian...
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...
Believers Wrap the Cross in Black Net to Prevent Its Removal
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 25, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned that the Wantan town government in Zhongmou County, Zhengzhou city had threatened to remove the cross of a Christian church in Lixianwu village under its jurisdiction. To protect the cross,...
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...

