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...
Members of the Born Again Movement were arrested by the police while assembling, and 14 of them are still being held. The Evangelical Protestant Born Again Movement, also known as Word of Life Church, All Ranges or All Sphere Church, established in Henan by Xu Yongze...
A temple in Zhejiang was destroyed, and the believers were driven out in a CCP backed action. In November 2016, the local secretary of Duqiao Party Committee, Chen Jinguo, assembled a 700 strong force to break down a cave temple. The contingent included personnel from...