Released after completing a three-year sentence for her belief, a Christian comes home with serious health problems. Wang Ping (pseudonym) who was arrested in April 2015 has recently been released after completing her three-year sentence at the Yuci Women’s Prison in...
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Believer Sent to Prison After Returning to China
A member of The Church of Almighty God was imprisoned when she returned to China after her asylum application was refused in Switzerland. Wu Xin (pseudonym), born on April 5, 1956, in Linshu County of Linyi city, Shandong, joined The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...
Chinese Authorities Pursue Families of Believers Who Fled Abroad
The family of a believer in Almighty God has been harassed to coerce him into coming back to China after he had left because of his faith. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities persecute not only believers who live in the country, but they also target those who...
Members of The Church of Almighty God On the Run Arrested Through the Use of China’s Global Surveillance System
As soon as fugitives use their credit card or show their ID documents for hotel check-in or for purchasing a train ticket, they are identified and arrested. On July 14, Bitter Winter reported that on June 26 at least 500 members of The Church of Almighty God, a...
A Secret Document Details the Plan for Persecuting the Movements Listed as Xie Jiao
Bitter Winter has received and publishes a confidential document detailing how the persecution of the movements listed as xie jiao (“heterodox teachings”) should be conducted between April 2018 and January 2019. The Church of Almighty God is the primary target. Xie...
Police Use Funeral to Capture Local Church Preacher
Law enforcement officers apprehended an Evangelical preacher during her father-in-law’s funeral. While preacher Ding Lijuan (pseudonym) of the Local Church in Jiaozuo city, Henan, was making funeral arrangements for her father-in-law, she was arrested by the Chinese...
Five Family Members of Believers in Almighty God Arrested
The police monitored phones of the family members before arresting them during a joint operation between two regional law enforcement forces. Li Changqing and five others in his family are members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...
House Church Leader Forced to Undergo Intense Indoctrination
Arrested for her belief, a house church leader spent three years in prison undergoing brutal atheist “training.” In July 2014, more than a dozen police officers from the Public Security Bureau and local police station in Dezhou city, Pingyuan county, Shandong...
House Church Members Severely Beaten in Detention
Three house church co-workers were arrested during a religious meeting; during their detention, police officers beat two of them up. On May 14, 2012, at approximately 11 a.m., the chief of a local police station in Yuechi county of Guang’an, Sichuan, brought several...
House Church Co-Worker Suffers Mental Breakdown From Persecution
A church member form Henan has been sentenced for his belief three times, which resulted in his mental and physical incapacitation. Zhang Wei (pseudonym), a 55-year-old primary co-worker in a local house church from Gaoxin town in the Suiyang district of Shangqiu...








