A temple in Zhejiang was destroyed, and the believers were driven out in a CCP backed action. In November 2016, the local secretary of Duqiao Party Committee, Chen Jinguo, assembled a 700 strong force to break down a cave temple. The contingent included personnel from...
In the July-August 2018 of The Journal of CESNUR, sociologist Massimo Introvigne discusses the notion of fake news, and how CCP organizes international campaigns of fake news to justify the persecution of certain groups, with a case study of The Church of Almighty...
The persecution and closures of house churches in Liaoning Province have increased after the Chinese government adopted special legislation earlier this year. Bitter Winter has received information that since this spring, at least 40 gathering places of house churches...
It took 14 days for the Chinese government to destroy a large Hui mosque in Manas county of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang. A resident of Manas county has reported to Bitter Winter how she witnessed the demolition of a large mosque at the beginning...
Authorities detained and continue to monitor a bishop who traveled abroad for religious purposes. In 2012, Bishop Tong Changping traveled to the Vatican City in the hope of meeting the then Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop Tong left behind the cell phone given to him by CCP...
The leader of a Protestant Three-Self church was sentenced to one year in prison for allowing two out-of-town pastors to give a sermon. On September 27, 2017, Chen Shouxin (pseudonym), the leader of a government-controlled Three-Self church in Wuyang county, Luohe...
The dwellings at a Buddhist gathering place in Kunming city were demolished by the Chinese law enforcement, dispersing dozens of Buddhists. At 2 o’clock on the afternoon of June 2, 2018, over 40 Buddhists were reciting scripture in a tent on a small mountain in...
Authorities expand their campaign to prosecute South Korean Christian churches to universities and local communities. Since the United Front Work Department, the Ministry of Public Security, and the National Bureau of Religious Affairs adopted the “Plan for the...
Hundreds of Christians from across China were arrested during a large religious gathering in Hubei Province. A Christian named Xu Meilan from a house church in Xian’an High-Tech Development Zone, Xianning city, Hubei Province, invited more than 500 Christians from her...
The police apprehended four elderly house church Christians in Sichuan. One of them, fearing the authorities would cancel his subsistence allowance, attempted to kill himself. On April 6, 2017, the head of the local police station of Mianyang city, Sichuan Province...