A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Four members of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, were gathering in one of their homes in the city of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province when a neighbor reported on them to the police, resulting in their arrest.
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Hao Qingguo is the leader of all the congregations of the Shouters, an Evangelical Christian group known in the West as the Local Church, in Jilin Province. In February 2018, the 59-year-old priest was arrested when he got off the train in the province’s city of […]
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 list because of her belief in Almighty God. She fled home to avoid […]
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 their faith. Attempting their arrest, the police used their former […]
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 more than two years ago. The police continue to constantly burst into her […]
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 and removed images of Jesus at the well-known Our Lady of Mount Carmel pilgrimage […]
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 messaging app in China.
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 scholarly literature on fake news, and analyzed the campaign of fake news organized […]
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.
