Another building has been discovered as a “transformation through education” camp in Xinjiang. As hundreds of Muslims of various ethnicities continue to be detained, Chinese authorities are working on creating more and more spaces to hold them. Bitter Winter has...
In separate incidences, Chinese authorities arrested elderly members of a house church and a pastor and detained them in “transformation through education camps.” On April 19, the police detained three elderly members of a Christian house church in Shawan county of...
Authorities in Jiangxi Province replace religious symbols with Party slogans in “official” churches that belong to the China Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement. At 11 a.m. on July 27, 2018, government officials and local party cadres from Nangang town, in...
Newborns and infants too are left to fend for themselves if their parents are taken away to camps. Bitter Winter recently spoke to a university student in Xinjiang’s Kumul city about how CCP’s policies against Muslims have impacted his life. To begin with, Erkin...
Believers in Henan were unable to attend Sunday service at Protestant churches because of the shutdowns. In Henan’s Xinzheng city, five churches that belong to the government-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement were targeted for shut down or removal of church...
The authorities have implemented strict measures to disguise a camp as a vocational training center. In Xinjiang’s Akto county, which lies in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, there is a building complex in the Light Industrial Park area. While the authorities...
A government-sanctioned Protestant church in Fujian was persecuted by authorities for inviting preachers from another province to deliver sermons. On September 3, 2017, the Luohua Church, a Protestant church that belongs to the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, in...
Four years ago, authorities mobilized more than 1,000 people to destroy six Buddhist temples in Zhejiang Province. Recently, a witness of the events, a Buddhist herself, told Bitter Winter that four years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) one day destroyed six...
After failing to arrest a believer six times, the police posted an online alert to capture him. Liu Yan (pseudonym), the leader of a house church in Heze city, Shandong Province and a believer since 1993, has been wanted by the police for years. In 1997 alone, the...
The authorities have been forcing Christians to attend “Sinicization of Christianity” course to preach a CCP friendly version of faith. In July, authorities in Liaoning’s Shenyang city organized a training course at the Northeast Theological Seminary. The course,...