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Believer Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances in Detention

Believer Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances in Detention

A member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested for her belief; some days later, her family was notified that she had killed herself. Xie Xin (pseudonym) from Guizhou Province, was arrested by the police in late March...

Arrested for Printing Christian Hymns

Arrested for Printing Christian Hymns

Two Shanxi Province residents were detained for printing religious material and books. In pursuit of the crackdown on reading material deemed illegal by the CCP, two residents from Shanxi Province were arrested years ago and continue to be under surveillance. Zhong...

Severely Ill Uyghur Woman Held in Camp, Not Allowed to See Doctor

Severely Ill Uyghur Woman Held in Camp, Not Allowed to See Doctor

An Uyghur couple, both with medical problems, from Kumul city in Xinjiang, were arrested and detained in “transformation through education camps,” leaving their three children behind. Bitter Winter interviewed one of them. On June 18, 2018, the police arrested Guli, a...

More Accounts About “Operation Thunder”

More Accounts About “Operation Thunder”

Personal accounts of the arrested believers in Almighty God during the “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the massive crackdown on The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, in Liaoning Province,...

Yet Another Three-Self Church Demolished in Henan

Yet Another Three-Self Church Demolished in Henan

The authorities have demolished a yet another church despite it being a legal structure. In April this year, the local authorities in Henan’s Luohe demolished a government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church, citing planning and reconstruction as their reasons....

Chilling Details Emerge About Pastor’s Detention

Chilling Details Emerge About Pastor’s Detention

Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor from Zhejiang Province, discloses details of being detained in a water dungeon. In June 2015, the local police of Qianxi arrested and detained Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor in a house church in Hangzhou, in the Guiyang airport. He was accused of...

Coordinated Arrest of Believers in Suzhou, Anhui

Coordinated Arrest of Believers in Suzhou, Anhui

On March 10-25, 2018, the police in Suzhou implemented organized arrests of believers. One of them was an elderly family church presbyter in a village in Xiao county. At 2:00 p.m. on March 23, 68-years-old family church presbyter Wu Jie (pseudonym) went to the clinic...

University Student Forced to Drop Out Because of Her Faith

University Student Forced to Drop Out Because of Her Faith

A university student and a member of The Church of Almighty God in Liaoning Province was arrested because of her faith and was later forced to quit her studies. On June 27, 2018, five officers from a police station in Jinzhou city, Liaoning Province burst into a...