Several Buddhist temples in Henan have been tarnished or demolished by the Chinese authorities. On April 4, 21 Buddhists in Henan’s Gongyi city were arrested while they were reading scriptures in a building’s basement. It was only after Ms. Zhang, the person in charge...
Authorities in China persecute churches on alleged charges of illegal financial activities. In May 2017, more than ten police officers broke into the venue of a house church in Qiqihar city, Heilongjiang Province and confiscated 70,000 RMB (over 10,000 USD) of church...
The authorities deceived more than 40 Muslim men from an ethnic Hui village and detained them at a “transformation through education camp.” In April 2018, Ma Minghui (pseudonym) from a village in Usu city, Xinjiang, received a notification from authorities to attend...
A Jiangxi man could not avail medical treatment at the end of his life and died escaping persecution at the hands of CCP. In July 2014, the Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide campaign, known as, “Hundred Day Battle”, to arrest believers of The Church of...
A group of six preachers travelled to Xinjiang and were arrested by the police. They also suffered brutal physical torture in detention. On April 22, Ma Qiang (pseudonym) and five others from a state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Church in Qinghai travelled to...
The authorities have issued orders that small gatherings of two to three believers are to be reported as well. Ever since the implementation of the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs in February, the Chinese authorities have intensified their assault on house...
Bitter Winter has received more testimonies about arrests and detention of people at “transformation through education” camps in China's Xinjiang Province. It is believed that the authorities in China recently detained over a million people, mostly Uyghurs and others...
Three members of a family from Yunnan who were arrested in 2016 and subjected to mental torture recount their experience. In October 2016, four police officers from the Chuxiong local station showed up at the home of Zhang Qian (pseudonym). Her house was raided, and...
Seven believers were arrested in Shanxi and have been through severe torture in the course of interrogation. In March 2015, seven Christians from a house church in Shanxi’s Xing county were traveling to Ordos city in Inner Mongolia. A local believer, who wanted to...
An institute that provided training and education in Arabic was recently shut down in Ningxia’s Wuzhong city. In April, the authorities showed up at the Zaoyuan Arabic Translation Training Base and Islamic Scripture Institute under the guise of checking the building’s...