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...
A massive campaign against Islam continues in Xinjiang. Mosques built with years of efforts by local Muslims demolished, both imams and protesters arrested. From February to May 2018, several imams in the town of Hongxing, Wusu city, were arrested, and many mosques...
Bitter Winter has received a secret Communist Party document with a plan to close down churches and religious meeting places in Liaoning Province. Since February 2018, following the implementation of the new national Regulations on Religious Affairs, authorities in...
Repeatedly arrested and tortured, a 71-year-old house church leader is still harassed by the police. Liu Yunjin (pseudonym) is the leader of a house church in Daye city, Hubei. She has been arrested by the police three times in the past, tortured, and is currently...
On July 14, the city of Xuzhou issued a notice reporting that from mid-May to mid-June, 32 members of The Church of Almighty God were arrested in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, 15 of them are still being detained. The Jiangsu police have been carrying out province-wide,...
When farmers from the Dai minority protested against the exploitation by a rubber company, the police sided with the company, killed two villagers and seriously wounded another ten. The Menglian incident of July 19, 2008, was followed with considerable emotion in...
Since spring 2017, Chinese authorities have increased their suppression efforts against Islam, demolishing innumerable mosques and sending Muslims to re-education camps. Recently, a Bitter Winter reporter visited the sites of six demolished mosques in the city of...
On June 1, 2018, the police raided a meeting place of The Church of Almighty God in the Yongchuan district of the city of Chongqing, arresting four believers. Three elderly members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, Tang Yong...
Over the past few months, government-controlled Protestant Three-Self churches in various locations in Henan Province have either been shut down or forced to take down their crosses. After the crosses of the Central Church in the town of Wolong and Bo’ai Church in the...