A married couple of believers was arrested in Jiangsu Province, their 13-year-old son questioned by the police. At about 11 a.m. on June 21, officers from the police station in the city of Pizhou, Jiangsu Province burst into the home of a couple, who are members of...
Four co-workers of a house church in Bin county of Harbin city were apprehended by the police during a church meeting; they were later sentenced to long prison terms. In May 2014, the leader of the house church, Cao Hong (pseudonym), and three co-workers were...
Sources from Yining city report about further measures against Islam in Xinjiang, and new “transformation through education” camps being built. Bitter Winter continues to receive reports from Xinjiang about the massive crackdown on the local Muslim population,...
More information has been revealed about the arrest of 500 members of The Church of Almighty God on June 26-28 in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party authorities’ massive crackdown on The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...
The police repeatedly interrogated an elderly couple from The Church of Almighty God and arrested eleven members from the same church, in the city of Chongqing. On April 16, 2018, a married couple of believers in Almighty God, Zhang Jianjie and Xia Wennian...
Bitter Winter has uncovered information that the preparations for the massive arrests of believers in Almighty God in Liaoning, on June 26-28, had been taking place since early spring. A large-scale “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province resulted in the arrest of...
In a high-profile trial, a Chinese Muslim woman, who is an ethnic Kazakh and escaped to Kazakhstan with false documents, is threatened with repatriation to China.
Students and teachers were investigated and punished for possession of Islamic or Christian texts, or if they failed to report the religious beliefs of their family members. Bitter Winter has reported repeatedly about the persecution of Muslim believers in Xinjiang,...
Even government-controlled Three-Self churches are not safe from the demolition campaign: the Baofeng church in Jiangxi was falsely declared unsafe and demolished. Since President Xi Jinping took office, many churches have been demolished, or their crosses have been...
At least 32 members of The Church of Almighty God have been arrested and tortured around Xuzhou, Jiangsu, where the police are trying to capture local leaders of the movement. Bitter Winter has learned that the police in Jiangsu Province joined a recent nation-wide...