A congregation in Yulin City, Shaanxi had repeatedly been raided by the local police at night and had their property looted. Some Christians were sentenced for up to five years. The congregation site was located in Yulin city and was the meeting place for the...
Eyewitnesses reveal that a vocational training center has been turned into a “transformation through education” camp in Bole city, Xinjiang. Informed sources report that a vocational training center located at No. 13 Qiancheng Road, Nancheng in Xinjiang’s Bole has...
Court of Appeal in Lincang, Yunnan, confirms heavy prison sentences for Christians accused of being members of a banned movement they insist they never heard of. On May 3, 2018, Bitter Winter reported that house church Christians in Yunnan were being arrested and...
Many government-controlled Protestant Three-Self churches have been shut down or ordered to remove their crosses in the city of Changchun. An administrative village in Wanjinta township, Nong’an county, Changchun city is home to a small Three-Self church with...
A house church member from Yucheng in Dezhou city, Shandong Province was apprehended after buying an online ticket to go to a religious event. In January 2018, Liu Fangfang (pseudonym) bought a plane ticket online to attend a religious event in Taiwan and was arrested...
Only four Muslim adults remain in 30 households on one of the alleys in a Xinjiang village; the rest are detained in camps. Since this spring, at least 60 individuals from a village in Manas County of the Changji prefecture in Xinjiang have been apprehended by...
Many Buddhist temples have been demolished since February across various provinces under the false pretext of “unapproved construction projects.” Hou Aiyun, the 83-year-old caretaker of the Guangxiao Temple in Zhengzhou, was barely awake when law enforcement personnel...
Elementary and middle school students in the region are being forced to abandon their religious belief. Preceding the holy month of Ramadan in May this year, the head teacher at a school in Xinjiang’s Turpan issued a verbal directive for all Uyghur or Islamic imagery...
Local authorities decided to stop the building of a church after they sold the land to the congregation and issued all necessary permits. The construction of a church building that belongs to China’s state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement was...
Authorities destroy a newly-built center for members of a government-controlled Three-Self church in Guangdong Province. A believer from mainland China wrote to Bitter Winter about the destruction of a five-story center for believers built by a government-controlled...