Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 20, 2018 In April 2018, Zheng Xin (pseudonym), a 42-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, from Pizhou in Jiangsu Province, was unlawfully detained by the Chinese Communist Party...
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Catholic Church in Henan Vandalized, Priest Arrested and Forced to Leave China
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 In December of 2017, a Catholic “underground” church in the Weibin District of the city of Xinxiang in Henan Province set up a youth fellowship. Catholic underground churches belong to the clandestine Catholic...
Catholic Priest Detained for Plans to Discuss Proposed China-Vatican Agreement
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 The agreement currently being discussed between China and the Vatican on the appointment of Catholic bishops has been and still is a topic of particularly great interest and concern for Catholic clergy and...
Party Official Organized Convicted Offenders to Beat Up Believers in Church
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 A senior Chinese Communist Party Official in the city of Zhoukou, Henan Province organized offenders serving their sentence outside of prison to go to a Three-Self Protestant church and beat up believers,...
Police Extorts Money from Families Persecuted for Religious Belief
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 Two relatives from Shandong Province have paid a harsh price for their religious beliefs: a long-term prison sentence for one and living in hiding for the other. The police tried to extort money from the families...
Police Keeps Believers in Fear of Persecution After Church Leader’s Arrest
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 The police arrested a house church leader in Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County in the city of Dandong, Liaoning Province, almost three years ago. During the arrest, in the house of the preacher, they found a list...
Ten House Church Members Still Detained After Arrest in March
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Ten house church members were arrested on March 2, in Shandong Province’s Qihe County, the city of Dezhou, and are still kept in detention for more than three months after their arrest.The day of the arrest was...
Three Shouters’ Leaders From Shandong Persecuted For Years
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Three leaders of the Shouters Christian community in the city of Yantai, Shandong Province, have been persecuted and arrested over the time period of a few years. Their stories serve as examples of Chinese...
Arrested For Being a Christian: A Preacher’s Story
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Bitter Winter has reported repeatedly about the persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang. However, religious persecution in Xinjiang also targets Christians, according to reports and documents we keep receiving. Officers...
Communist Party Seized a Church And Turned It Into Office of Village Committee
A small Three-Self Church in Henan Province, fell victim to the Chinese Communist Party’s large-scale persecution of religions.


