Members of a Christian family in the Anhui Province have been separated due to CCP sanctioned persecution. On August 25, 2015, three police officers lured Chen Xiulan (pseudonym) who was an active member in a local house church to the station under the pretext of...
An inside source revealed to Bitter Winter how officers from Ulan-Usu town of Shawan county use false pretexts to lure Muslims into the police station, later locking them up in a local “transformation through education” camp. One evening at the end of March this year,...
A family of three who are all members of The Church of Almighty God were detained during the “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning’s Dandong city. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, on June 26-28, a full-scale “Operation Thunder” was implemented in Liaoning Province,...
A believer was arrested in 2015 and sentenced to two years in jail for believing in a heterodox religious movement. Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code states that “using” a xie jiao (heterodox teachings) is a crime punishable with jail penalties from three to...
A newly-built state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Church in Luohe city, Henan, forcibly occupied by authorities and transformed into a center for Communist Party members. The Caodian Church, located in Wenshi township, Yuanhui district of Luohe was still undergoing...
The Chinese authorities often target Christians or Chinese citizens who flee the country but then return. In August 2017, Jiang Han (pseudonym) returned to China. A member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, he had returned to...
The authorities continue their mission of removing church crosses by whatever means possible. In Mainland China, a campaign of forced demolitions or removals of church crosses has been underway since the past four years. As of July 2015, over 1700 crosses had been...
A Three-Self church in Yunnan Province was arbitrarily demolished to make way for “consolidation.” On April 8, the Three-Self government-controlled Denglongba Church received a notice from the Lushui City Bureau of Religious Affairs that the church’s certification has...
Authorities destroyed a well-known Buddhist temple in the province’s Xutang village in 2013. The Tibetan-style Guanghua Temple was located in Xutang village, Zhengyang town, Weicheng district, Xianyang city, and it was attracting many worshipers who came there to...
The authorities refused to issue tourist visas to citizens wanting to visit South Korea. Following the implementation of the new Regulations of Religious Affairs, Chinese citizens of Christian faith are finding it difficult to obtain permission to travel out of China....