A district court in Bengbu city, Anhui Province fined and sentenced 24 members of The Church of Almighty God to varying terms in prison for heterodox teachings. On July 26, 2018, The Yuhui District Court in Anhui’s Bengbu city sentenced to time in prison and fined 24...
The Chinese authorities have been demolishing and shutting down churches, and their reasons for doing that are now becoming increasingly unsound. Bitter Winter has reported extensively from Henan about the demolitions and shut down of the state-sanctioned Protestant...
A house church in Changsha city, Hunan Province was shut down and over 2,000 books, including copies of the Bible, were confiscated and burned by Chinese authorities. On the morning of July 14, 2018, Wen Yu (pseudonym), the leader of a house church in Changsha, a...
Abbot Xuecheng, once a CCP darling, has been “counseled” to resign as a result of a sexual scandal—and for other reasons, too. On August 8, Bitter Winter reported that Venerable Xuecheng, the abbot of Beijing’s Longquan Temple and the President of the Chinese Buddhist...
An official U.S. report details the massive efforts deployed by the United Front, under the personal guidance of President Xi Jinping, to manipulate information about China abroad and contain criticism on the issues of religious freedom and human rights.
While Chinese agents, hired thugs and anti-cultists stage false “spontaneous demonstrations” and abuse refugees, hackers launch a massive attack against the website of Bitter Winter, obviously trying to prevent its reporting of the events in Korea
A female officer in Xinjiang is forced to take part in the program of forced indoctrination of Uyghur Muslims and is not allowed to resign. In December last year, the Xinjiang government introduced its ‘two full coverages’ policy. It stipulates that a Party cadre or a...
Several Buddhist temples in Henan have been tarnished or demolished by the Chinese authorities. On April 4, 21 Buddhists in Henan’s Gongyi city were arrested while they were reading scriptures in a building’s basement. It was only after Ms. Zhang, the person in charge...
Authorities in Henan’s Sanmenxia city have issued an order to replace crosses with Chinese national flags in the churches that belong to the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement. On August 9, the Religious Governance Steering Group in Henan’s Sanmenxia city held a...
Authorities in China persecute churches on alleged charges of illegal financial activities. In May 2017, more than ten police officers broke into the venue of a house church in Qiqihar city, Heilongjiang Province and confiscated 70,000 RMB (over 10,000 USD) of church...