In just one month, 13 of the 14 mosques in Bashisihu township of Wusu city in Xinjiang were demolished by authorities, and the one that remains is already entirely under the Chinese Communist Party’s control. A source informed Bitter Winter that in the Bashisihu...
Police officers in Liaoning Province, deliberately falsified interrogation transcripts to sentence five preachers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for “using a xie jiao organization to undermine law enforcement.” On November 10, 2015, Yang Jie (pseudonym) of...
An Uyghur couple from Xinjiang under government-sanctioned persecution. The local police in Shanshan County detained an Uyghur man in May this year. His wife, Ms. Gulnur (pseudonym) says his crime was reading Quran with an imam for a month thirty years ago. As per the...
The local police unlawfully detained a house church member from Tuquan because of her belief. Even after her release from custody, she is subjected to monitoring. On November 11, 2016, at about 6 a.m., five officers from the county Public Security Bureau criminal...
Four South Korean missionaries were arrested in the cities of Dandong and Dalian in May this year and were later deported. Kim Eunseoung and Wang Sukyeong (both are pseudonyms) were apprehended in Dandong city, where they were conducting missionary work. The police...
The authorities in a Henan Province's city were unable to demolish a church, following protests by believers. In April 2018, local authorities in Yanshi city of Henan Province made two attempts at demolishing a state-approved Protestant Three-Self Church but failed...
A government-controlled Catholic Church sister in Zhejiang Province was arrested and held in detention for three months because her preaching did not correspond to the government’s requirements. On a Sunday morning of July 2016, after Ms. Zhou, a sister at the...
A government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church in Jiangxi Province was taken over by authorities and converted into a “poverty alleviation center.” With the growing persecution of religions in China, even the government-approved Protestant Three-Self churches...
Two Protestant pastors from a government-controlled Three-Self church in Guangdong Province were arrested for receiving religious publications by mail. On the morning of January 23, 2018, Dongguan city police officers arrived at the home of Xia Lian and her husband,...
A church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. The cross of a church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. On July 21, 2014, the cross of the...