Two women went to Henchi city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region where they were taken into custody for spreading the gospel; one of them was detained, and the other was sentenced to three years in prison. House church members from Guilin – Li Xia and Fang En –...
Hired criminals recently razed a temple in Hubei to the ground, even though it had all government permits in place. On April 14, the municipal government of Danjiangkou city in Hubei assembled personnel from the Public Security Bureau, Religious Affairs Bureau and...
The Chinese authorities deport North Korean defectors back to their country in violation of international human rights agreements. Zhang Li, a man in his sixties from Linjiang city, Jilin Province, told Bitter Winter that two years ago, his North Korean wife of 18...
A woman from Fujian was arrested and put through mental and physical trauma when authorities tortured her for information about her church. On July 19, Li Lin (pseudonym) was arrested from her home in Fujian province. She is a Christian and a believer of The Church of...
The church’s leader felt helpless as her church was illegally demolished and was refused justice by everyone. In December last year, the Luyi county government in Henan deployed more than 100 police officers for a church demolition. It was a government-approved...
The performances are enacted to frame the person and make him look bad enough so he could be deported. Recently, Human Rights Watch issued a report as per which the Chinese authorities use the so-called “illegal organizations” as a pretext to destroy the Tibetan...
The official later streamed the demolition of the Buddhist temple live on WeChat. A local source recently told Bitter Winter that a 100-year-old Buddhist temple in Zhejiang was torn down in May 2013 because a party official felt it was “too conspicuous.” The official,...
The authorities hired thugs to vandalize and loot a religious gathering venue in Anhui. In July 2015, more than 200 members of a house church were gathered at the home of a believer, Zhou Sheng (pseudonym), in Anhui’s Tongcheng city to participate in a biannual Bible...
Bitter Winter accessed a video that shows the destruction of an altar of a Catholic church in Fujian’s Fuzhou city. According to sources, on the morning of July 29, 2018, the local government in Fuzhou mobilized nearly 100 urban management and armed police officers...
Many people in Jilin have been rendered homeless after the police took over a building where they lived. Last month, Bitter Winter reported about the demolition of a house church in Songyuan city of Jilin. Next to it was a building known as “Prayer Mountain,” which...