Authorities in Shihezi, Xinjiang ordered the demolition of mosques and later rebuilt some of them as plain-looking bunkhouses without any identifying symbols. According to an insider in Shihezi, the local government ordered to close down all mosques in the city,...
Ambassador Brownback and witnesses denounce Chinese repression of religious liberty at the Washington D.C. Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. At the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a gathering of foreign ministers of 80 countries organized by the U.S....
The first side event of a week centered on the meeting of 80 foreign ministers in Washington D.C. was hosted by Bitter Winter and devoted to the persecution of Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and The Church of Almighty God in China. 80 foreign ministers arrived in Washington DC...
Authorities in Zhejiang Province prohibited holy names and religious terms on boats, ordering their owners to paint them over. In June 2018, the Fishery Administration Station in Songmen, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province was ordered to refer boats marked with religious...
Massive arrests against The Church of Almighty God continue in Heze, Rizhao, Zibo, Weifang, and other cities in Shandong Province. Since April of this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has launched a massive organized operation cracking down on The...
Despite her poor health, a female member of The Church of Almighty Gold is still detained in Sichuan. A female member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, is still detained in Chengdu, Sichuan, more than one month after her arrest,...
In 2014, China launched a massive international fake news campaign to attribute to The Church of Almighty God a homicide actually perpetrated by a different religious movement. At the XIX World Congress of Sociology, the largest gathering of sociologists in the...
The local government forcibly destroyed a Three-Self church in a village of Henan Province for being taller than the local committee building. Authorities of the Zhaihouchen village of Jian’an district in the city of Xuchang demolished a government-approved Three-Self...
Sources from Yining city report about further measures against Islam in Xinjiang, and new “transformation through education” camps being built. Bitter Winter continues to receive reports from Xinjiang about the massive crackdown on the local Muslim population,...
More information has been revealed about the arrest of 500 members of The Church of Almighty God on June 26-28 in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party authorities’ massive crackdown on The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...