Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Four years ago, Chinese law enforcement authorities placed a 55-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, from the city of Shangrao in Jiangxi Province on the most-wanted...
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Police Use Tactics of Deceit to Arrest Believers
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 A couple from the city of Linfen in Shanxi Province, members of The Church of Almighty God- a Christian new religious movement, has been listed as wanted persons by the Chinese Communist Party police because of...
House Church Leader Forced to Flee Fearing Arrest
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Surveilled and chased after by the Communist Party authorities for her religious beliefs, 49-year-old house church leader from Huancui District in the city of Weihai, Shandong Province was forced to flee her home...
Images: Destruction of the Way of the Cross in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Bitter Winter reported earlier about the destruction of a Roman Catholic Way of the Cross in Henan Province. In the evening of June 5, officials ordered excavators and other heavy machinery to destroy the monuments...
Police Interrogated Teenagers for WeChat Message With “Religious” Content
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Five students from the Gongyi City First Secondary Professional School in Henan Province were taken to a police station for sharing a humorous message with "religious" content on WeChat - highly popular instant...
Scholars, NGOs, Lawyers Protest Fake News and Persecution of The Church of Almighty God
Source: Direct reports from NGOs Date: June 21, 2018 On June 20, 2018, during the yearly conference of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, which is taking place in Nantou, Taiwan, Professor Massimo Introvigne, editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter reviewed the...
Chinese Government Demolishes Mosques in Xinjiang
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 Muslims in China have suffered devastating blows since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified its onslaught on religious liberties: believers are incarcerated and mosques destroyed. Bitter Winter has...
Catholic Priest Persecuted for Over 60 Years
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 20, 2018 Han Jingtao is currently 97-years-old. He is a priest of a so-called “underground” Catholic church from Bairin Right Banner in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. As a priest of the church whose bishops are appointed by...
Member of The Church of Almighty God Tortured for Eight Days
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...
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...

