The police arrested a member of the Church of Almighty God after they followed her for days, which led them to other Church members. On May 9, 2018, Huang Yue, a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested by the...
Two sisters who were co-workers in a house church in Liaocheng city, Shandong, faced cruel persecution by the Chinese Communist authorities since 2008. Dong Lingyun and her younger sister Dong Lingxia (pseudonyms) have been arrested and imprisoned multiple time for...
The local government forcibly destroyed a Three-Self church in a village of Henan Province for being taller than the local committee building. Authorities of the Zhaihouchen village of Jian’an district in the city of Xuchang demolished a government-approved Three-Self...
A house church leader from Shanxi was arrested in July 2017 and imprisoned for six months; 70 members of the same church were questioned after his arrest. According to an inside source, on July 31, 2017, officers from a local police station apprehended a house church...
A married couple of believers was arrested in Jiangsu Province, their 13-year-old son questioned by the police. At about 11 a.m. on June 21, officers from the police station in the city of Pizhou, Jiangsu Province burst into the home of a couple, who are members of...
Four co-workers of a house church in Bin county of Harbin city were apprehended by the police during a church meeting; they were later sentenced to long prison terms. In May 2014, the leader of the house church, Cao Hong (pseudonym), and three co-workers were...
Sources from Yining city report about further measures against Islam in Xinjiang, and new “transformation through education” camps being built. Bitter Winter continues to receive reports from Xinjiang about the massive crackdown on the local Muslim population,...
More information has been revealed about the arrest of 500 members of The Church of Almighty God on June 26-28 in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party authorities’ massive crackdown on The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...
The police repeatedly interrogated an elderly couple from The Church of Almighty God and arrested eleven members from the same church, in the city of Chongqing. On April 16, 2018, a married couple of believers in Almighty God, Zhang Jianjie and Xia Wennian...
Bitter Winter has uncovered information that the preparations for the massive arrests of believers in Almighty God in Liaoning, on June 26-28, had been taking place since early spring. A large-scale “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province resulted in the arrest of...