Bitter Winter has received reports from Lanzhou city in Gansu Province where ten believers at a family church were illegally detained and severely tortured for their belief. On May 25, two believers, Hao Zhen and Lin Qiang (all names are pseudonyms) were in the local...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has mobilized people from all walks of life to gather information on believers and report on them. The CCP has implemented a reward-based reporting system and has mobilized sanitation workers, community building supervisors, retired...
Venerable Xuecheng, the abbott of Beijing’s Longquan Temple and the President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, a staunch supporter of the CCP, is investigated for sexual abuse. Is the CCP protecting Xuecheng or trying to get rid of him for political reasons? On...
A believer was reprimanded for a church that she has financed to build, and authorities demanded to demolish it. In March of 2014, Li Susu (pseudonym), a house church Christian from Guangyuan city, Sichuan learned that her cancer went into remission, and she decided...
A member of a Korean church in Hailin city, Heilongjiang Province, intimidated by authorities and prohibited from holding religious gatherings. On June 19, 2018, Piao Huien, a member of a Korean family church in Hailin was intimidated by the authorities who prohibited...
A woman suffered constant physical and mental abuse while in prison for her belief in God. In May 2018, the police in Jiangxi Province’s Jiujiang city arrested a woman, Aizhen (pseudonym) for her Christian belief. The officers also snatched away her phone and...
A member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested for her belief; some days later, her family was notified that she had killed herself. Xie Xin (pseudonym) from Guizhou Province, was arrested by the police in late March...
Two Shanxi Province residents were detained for printing religious material and books. In pursuit of the crackdown on reading material deemed illegal by the CCP, two residents from Shanxi Province were arrested years ago and continue to be under surveillance. Zhong...
An Uyghur couple, both with medical problems, from Kumul city in Xinjiang, were arrested and detained in “transformation through education camps,” leaving their three children behind. Bitter Winter interviewed one of them. On June 18, 2018, the police arrested Guli, a...
Despite severe persecution, the CAG grew in China and, according to Chinese official sources, had reached four million members in 2014. Several thousand members have escaped abroad, where they have founded churches. Massimo Introvigne This text was originally...