Mr. Russell Abrutyn, attorney for the leader of The Church of Almighty God in four Chinese provinces currently detained in Detroit, who faces deportation back to China and possible execution there, has filed a motion to reopen her case, with new evidence. Readers of...
Since the end of March, the Chinese authorities have forbidden the sales of the Bible online and restricted the distribution of religious literature, closing down numerous sellers. Individuals who ordered religious texts have also been apprehended and monitored. On...
A believer in Almighty God was detained in May, and her family has not been able to visit her or even get any information on her whereabouts. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, over 100 members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement,...
The CCP targets Christian students at universities in Shaanxi, Liaoning, and Jiangxi Provinces. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) firmly believes in controlling the spread of religious faith at the university level, as young students tend to play pivotal roles in...
Members of a Christian family in the Anhui Province have been separated due to CCP sanctioned persecution. On August 25, 2015, three police officers lured Chen Xiulan (pseudonym) who was an active member in a local house church to the station under the pretext of...
An inside source revealed to Bitter Winter how officers from Ulan-Usu town of Shawan county use false pretexts to lure Muslims into the police station, later locking them up in a local “transformation through education” camp. One evening at the end of March this year,...
A family of three who are all members of The Church of Almighty God were detained during the “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning’s Dandong city. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, on June 26-28, a full-scale “Operation Thunder” was implemented in Liaoning Province,...
A believer was arrested in 2015 and sentenced to two years in jail for believing in a heterodox religious movement. Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code states that “using” a xie jiao (heterodox teachings) is a crime punishable with jail penalties from three to...
A newly-built state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Church in Luohe city, Henan, forcibly occupied by authorities and transformed into a center for Communist Party members. The Caodian Church, located in Wenshi township, Yuanhui district of Luohe was still undergoing...
The Chinese authorities often target Christians or Chinese citizens who flee the country but then return. In August 2017, Jiang Han (pseudonym) returned to China. A member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, he had returned to...