Authorities in Ningxia Hui autonomous region arrested a man and put him in prison for merely helping a friend who is a member of The Church of Almighty God. In July 2013, officials from Guyuan city Public Security Bureau detained Liu Cheng (pseudonym) for transporting...
Bitter Winter has accessed an exclusive video of a forced demolition of a Catholic church in Fujian. The church was located in Houxue village in the province’s Fuqing city. Nearly 600,000 RMB or 90,000 USD had already been spent on building the church, and its...
Additional information has emerged about the arrest of 71 believers in Henan’s Shangqiu city. Earlier in August, Bitter Winter reported about the arrest of 71 Christians from a house church in Henan. We have received information that one of them was tortured and ten...
The authorities carried out a series of arrests in Liaoning, which were pre-planned and designed to target Christians. Bitter Winter has reported extensively about an organized operation, during which the authorities at the end of June carried out mass arrests of...
In an ongoing assault on the Three-Self church, the authorities have shut down more churches in Henan’s Luoyang city. Bitter Winter has reported extensively about how the implementation of the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs affected all religions in China....
Forced labor camps were shut down, but CCP set up community corrections in its place, which still curtails freedom. In 2013, the Chinese government announced it would be shutting down its numerous forced labor camps and denied it would be setting up the alternative...
Local authorities in Shandong raid a Christian gathering place and illegally detain a pastor. On July 29, seven police officers in Shandong’s Zibo city raided a sola fide gathering. Also known as justification by faith alone, sola fide is a Christian theological...
Four years ago, several co-workers and more than 70 believers of a house church in Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan Province, were arrested; one of them was severely beaten while in custody. At noon on March 31, 2014, over ten officers from the National Security Brigade...
Despite China's denials about the existence of "transformation through education camps” in Xinjiang, Bitter Winter continues to receive accounts from people detained in such facilities. During China’s review at the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial...
The group included 28 underage students and were meeting in a remote area when the police detained them. On July 18, Xie Biao, a pastor with Justification by Faith church, organized religious summer camp in a remote forest in Sichuan’s Langzhong city. The group was...