Local authorities of the city of Lingbao threaten to forcibly demolish churches if they do not take down their crosses. According to unofficial calculations, since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect on February 1, 2018, at least 13 religious...
Classified document exposes the Chinese government’s plans to crack down on South Korean Christian missions in Shanxi Province. A classified document obtained by Bitter Winter reveals that the CCP puts great emphasis on propaganda aiming to increase the restrictions...
In just 20 days in May, in several major cities in Jiangsu Province, over 70 members of CAG were arrested and their homes were raided by authorities.
On June 26-28, a full-scale “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province resulted in massive arrests of members of this Christian new religious movement. In just three days, more than 500* believers of The Church of Almighty God were arrested all over the province,...
The Chinese Communist Party has repurposed the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Xigebi, the city of Kumul in Xinjiang for a conversion study group, or as it is more commonly known as a transformation through education camp. Bitter Winter has obtained a...
Monks aged 15 and under in the Tibetan-populated region of Sichuan are forced to leave their monasteries, and Chinese authorities place them in government-run schools, reports Radio Free Asia. According to a source, the Chinese government has started to expel young...
Bitter Winter has learned that house church Christian Qiao Gang (pseudonym) of Shangqiu City, Henan, was summoned to a local police station on May 4 of 2018, and has not been heard from since. When Qiao’s family inquired into the matter, they were told that he had...
Some dioceses of the government-controlled Patriotic Catholic Church in Henan Province informed of having received notices from municipal authorities requesting them to collect data on the backgrounds of their congregations, especially those from poor families,...
Source: Radio Free Asia Date: July 8, 2018 Radio Free Asia reports that Chinese human rights activist Ma Yongtao, who led several public protests against China in Europe, was about to be forcibly repatriated from the Netherlands to China, after his request for...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 8, 2018 Japanese and South Korean missionaries were deported from China on May 17 and were prohibited from entering the country for five years. Before the deportation, they were kept in detention for fifteen days. At night...