A very popular bishop of the underground Catholic Church died in 2016. Doubts now arise on the real causes of his death. Bishop (Thomas) Zeng Jingmu was part of the underground Catholic Church, which is loyal to the Vatican and, unlike the so-called Patriotic Catholic...
Local authorities of the city of Lingbao threaten to forcibly demolish churches if they do not take down their crosses. According to unofficial calculations, since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect on February 1, 2018, at least 13 religious...
Classified document exposes the Chinese government’s plans to crack down on South Korean Christian missions in Shanxi Province. A classified document obtained by Bitter Winter reveals that the CCP puts great emphasis on propaganda aiming to increase the restrictions...
A 65-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God persecuted by authorities forced to flee, her family strictly surveilled by the police. Tian Jin (pseudonym), is a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, from the city of...
In just 20 days in May, in several major cities in Jiangsu Province, over 70 members of CAG were arrested and their homes were raided by authorities.
On June 26-28, a full-scale “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province resulted in massive arrests of members of this Christian new religious movement. In just three days, more than 500* believers of The Church of Almighty God were arrested all over the province,...
On the run for over ten years, preacher Shi Yuliang from Zhejiang Province is unable to come home, and his family is constantly harassed by the police. The 49-year-old preacher, Shi Yuliang (pseudonym), from Ningbo, Zhejiang, was arrested in the city of Guangzhou in...
Local government and law enforcement have raided many religious venues and arrested believers in the city's Dahua and Donglan counties in previous months. On June 6, 2018, six officials, including court employees and police officers from the Public Security Bureau of...
The Chinese Communist Party has repurposed the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Xigebi, the city of Kumul in Xinjiang for a conversion study group, or as it is more commonly known as a transformation through education camp. Bitter Winter has obtained a...
Lu Xi (pseudonym), a thirty-one-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, from the Changping district of Beijing, traveled to Canada and then to the USA at the beginning of May 2018. In Canada, Lu Xi used her cell...