Before the second round of religious work review in Shandong Province, local authorities intensified crackdowns on religious venues and groups of all denominations.
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Nazi-Style CCP Book Burning Targets Religious Books
Images of books removed from libraries in China and publicly burned evoke disturbing reminiscences of the Nazi campaign of 1933.
CCP Uses Believers’ Donations to Indoctrinate Them
The regime tightens control over finances of state-approved churches, as a tool to limit religious activities to the minimum and ultimately take over them entirely.
Chinese Persecution of Religion Denounced in the Lithuanian Parliament
An international conference evidences the repression of all religions by the CCP, with a focus on Ethnic Kazakhs and The Church of Almighty God.
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (III): Sinicizing Religions
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. The third is devoted to the real meaning of religious “sinicization.”
Welcome to Xinjiang. But You Are Not Allowed to Leave
Through government incentives, Han Chinese have been lured to Xinjiang to accelerate the “hanification” of ethnic Muslims. Now, it’s not easy for them to return home.
20 Bitter Winter Reporters Vanished in the Air
Writing for Bitter Winter is a crime in China. 45 of our reporters were arrested. 20 are still in custody but we don’t know where – actually, we cannot even confirm they are alive.
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (II): High-tech Surveillance Measures
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. The second is devoted to how high-tech surveillance is used to violate human rights.
For the CCP, Cultural Confidence Means Ban of Anything Foreign
In a nationwide drive, place names are purged to reflect “excellent traditional Chinese culture” and show the country’s resistance to the “worship of foreign things.”
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (I): Religious Persecution
December 10 is Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles summarizing typical cases of violations of human rights in China. The first is devoted to religious persecution.