The first side event of a week centered on the meeting of 80 foreign ministers in Washington D.C. was hosted by Bitter Winter and devoted to the persecution of Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and The Church of Almighty God in China. 80 foreign ministers arrived in Washington DC...
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Will China Go to the Next World Cup? If It Will, It Should Thank Christians
China is hoping to be part of the next soccer World Cup in 2022. But few remember soccer started in China within Christian churches. Chinese of all ages watched the 2018 soccer World Cup, concluded in Russia on Sunday, July 15. The Chinese government invests...
Public Security Bureau Issued Quotas to Arrest Christians
A detained believers’ couple in Jilin Province has learned that the police were issued quotas for arresting the Christians. In the morning of March 2, 2018, Christian Zhang Li used his ID card to buy a train ticket in a town in Songyuan city, Jilin Province. Because...
Religious Terminology on Fishing Boats Banned
Authorities in Zhejiang Province prohibited holy names and religious terms on boats, ordering their owners to paint them over. In June 2018, the Fishery Administration Station in Songmen, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province was ordered to refer boats marked with religious...
Heavily Armed Police Arrested Christians in Jiangsu
Thirty officers burst into a house church and arrested 29 believers, later detaining some of them for up to ten days. At about 8 p.m. on March 30, 2018, nearly 30 heavily armed officers from the Pizhou Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province and a local police...
People’s Congress Deputy Status Revoked for Believing in God
A deputy from Xiangyang city in the National People’s Congress (NPC) was stripped of her mandate for being a member of a house church. Yang Hua (pseudonym) was a local National People’s Congress (NPC) deputy from Xiangyang city in Hubei Province as well as a regular...
Voices from Xinjiang: Bitter Winter Interviews Victims of Persecution
Three victims tell stories of ordinary persecution for the Muslims, arrested simply for growing a beard, wearing a headscarf or reading the Quran. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established in 1955. History, however, has proved that it is “autonomous” in...
Catholic Bishop Jia Zhiguo, 30 Years of House Arrest
The bishop of Zhengding of the underground Catholic Church has been in and out of detention since 1989, and is still kept under strict surveillance. Hebei is an important base for the Catholic Church in China. For many years, bishops and priests from the underground...
Church of Almighty God Members Arrested Across Shandong
Massive arrests against The Church of Almighty God continue in Heze, Rizhao, Zibo, Weifang, and other cities in Shandong Province. Since April of this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has launched a massive organized operation cracking down on The...
Church of Almighty God Member Detained in Chengdu Despite Her Poor Health
Despite her poor health, a female member of The Church of Almighty Gold is still detained in Sichuan. A female member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, is still detained in Chengdu, Sichuan, more than one month after her arrest,...









