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...
The pastor, whose wife is American, has been sentenced to seven years for illegal border crossing between China and the non-recognized “Wa State” in Burma. China Aid has launched an online petition asking the White House and the U.S. government to intensify their...
Personal accounts of the arrested believers in Almighty God during the “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the massive crackdown on The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, in Liaoning Province,...
The authorities have demolished a yet another church despite it being a legal structure. In April this year, the local authorities in Henan’s Luohe demolished a government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church, citing planning and reconstruction as their reasons....
Primary level students in Harbin city were questioned about the religious belief of families, ostracized and beaten for the same. On June 11, classes were in session at a primary school in the Yilan County of Harbin when the headmaster went on rounds, questioning...
Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor from Zhejiang Province, discloses details of being detained in a water dungeon. In June 2015, the local police of Qianxi arrested and detained Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor in a house church in Hangzhou, in the Guiyang airport. He was accused of...
On March 10-25, 2018, the police in Suzhou implemented organized arrests of believers. One of them was an elderly family church presbyter in a village in Xiao county. At 2:00 p.m. on March 23, 68-years-old family church presbyter Wu Jie (pseudonym) went to the clinic...
The Chinese government expands the network of “transformation through education camps” in Xinjiang. Bitter Winter has obtained videos and photos showing the outside of these facilities. Bitter Winter reported in July that the Chinese Communist Party had repurposed the...