Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 7, 2018 Over two hundred Muslim Uyghur children, from seven to seventeen-years-old, ended up in the welfare system of the Xinjiang’s city of Bole because their parents and relatives have been arrested and sent to the...
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Bitter Winter introduced to Catholics in Macau and Hong Kong
Source: O Clarim Date: July 6, 2018 On July 6, 2018, O Clarim, a Catholic magazine distributed in Macau and Hong Kong, published an interview with Bitter Winter’s editor-in-chief, Massimo Introvigne, about why Bitter Winter was created and what he expects of it. The...
Italian Newspaper Joins the Campaign for Sister Zou
RefuSource: Libero Date; July 6, 2018 The Italian national conservative newspaper Libero has joined the international campaign in favor of Sister Zou Demei, a regional leader of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement. Sister Zou is...
Lantos Foundation Joins Appeal to President Trump for Zou Demei
Source: Lantos Foundation Date: July 6, 2018 The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice, one of the most important American non-governmental organizations in the field of human rights and religious liberty, added its signature on July 5 to the open letter...
Detainees Recount Abuse in Chinese Re-Education Centers
Source: The Globe and Mail Date: July 5, 2018 Chinese officials have denied the existence of the re-education camps and refused to accept inspections from foreign countries, which adds to the concerns over human-rights violations in China, reports Canadian daily The...
Christian Couple Persecuted for Their Belief, Husband Dies After Illness Worsens
On May 14, 2014, at approximately 9 a.m., 3 officers from a local police station in Guoli town, Huantai County in Zibo rushed into the house of Christian Jiang Jiaming (pseudonym), ordered him to get his wife Cui Yu (pseudonym), who was working the fields at the time,...
Elderly Member of The Church of Almighty God Detained for Safeguarding Religious Books
The local police forced entry into the house of a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, in the city of Cenxi, Guangxi Province, taking him into custody and holding him for a fortnight after searching his house. Liu Zhong...
Armed Police Arrested Forty-Eight Shouters, Five Sentenced to Prison Time
On May 21, 2017, the Public Security Bureau of the city of Jimo, Shandong Province, united multiple local police stations, dispatched more than twenty squad cars and over seventy armed police officers and raided a local Shouters meeting site, forcibly detaining...
Rights Activists Appeal to US President to Intervene on Behalf of Detained Believer
Date: July 5, 2018 Nine leading human rights and religious liberty organizations sent a letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, appealing to intervene in the case of Demei Zou, the leader of the Christian new religious movement The Church of...
Like a Lamb to the Slaughter: Will the United States Send This Woman to Her Death?
A leader of The Church of Almighty God is threatened with deportation to China, where she will be at risk of being executed. This may be the most important article published by Bitter Winter to date. It is, literally, a question of life and death. It regards an asylum...









