Li Zhu (pseudonym), born on May 16, 1979, in Zhaodong city of the Heilongjiang Province, a believer since 1991, joined The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, in December 2007. She was always enthusiastic about spreading the gospel, and...
Xin Zhuo was a Christian from a house church in Wudan town of Ongnuid Banner in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia. He became a believer in 1998 and attracted the attention of the local police because of his frequent preaching. He was arrested but continued to preach,...
Monks aged 15 and under in the Tibetan-populated region of Sichuan are forced to leave their monasteries, and Chinese authorities place them in government-run schools, reports Radio Free Asia. According to a source, the Chinese government has started to expel young...
Bitter Winter has learned that house church Christian Qiao Gang (pseudonym) of Shangqiu City, Henan, was summoned to a local police station on May 4 of 2018, and has not been heard from since. When Qiao’s family inquired into the matter, they were told that he had...
Some dioceses of the government-controlled Patriotic Catholic Church in Henan Province informed of having received notices from municipal authorities requesting them to collect data on the backgrounds of their congregations, especially those from poor families,...
On June 6, 2018, four Christians from a house Church in the city of Yicheng, Hubei Province were arrested by police and had their homes searched. To date, one of them is still being held illegally. On June 6 at a little past 2 p.m., 54-year-old Christian Sun Zhen...
Source: Radio Free Asia Date: July 8, 2018 Radio Free Asia reports that Chinese human rights activist Ma Yongtao, who led several public protests against China in Europe, was about to be forcibly repatriated from the Netherlands to China, after his request for...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 8, 2018 Japanese and South Korean missionaries were deported from China on May 17 and were prohibited from entering the country for five years. Before the deportation, they were kept in detention for fifteen days. At night...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 7, 2018 Over two hundred Muslim Uyghur children, from seven to seventeen-years-old, ended up in the welfare system of the Xinjiang’s city of Bole because their parents and relatives have been arrested and sent to the...
Source: O Clarim Date: July 6, 2018 On July 6, 2018, O Clarim, a Catholic magazine distributed in Macau and Hong Kong, published an interview with Bitter Winter’s editor-in-chief, Massimo Introvigne, about why Bitter Winter was created and what he expects of it. The...