A Bitter Winter reporter has managed to talk to a detainee in one of the “transformation through education camps” for local Muslims in Xinjiang, where over 1,200 men and women are held. The “transformation through education camp” is in a three-story building...
Local authorities in Yunnan resorted to trickery to illegally demolish a temple. In the last week of June, a Buddhist temple in Yunnan Province’s Suijiang county fell prey to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continuing assault on religious faith. The deputy...
Chinese officials intimidate senior believers by forcing them to renounce their faith, or their allowances would be discontinued. As per stories coming out of Henan province, local government officials have taken to intimidate elderly Christians for their faith. These...
Since the end of March, the Chinese authorities have forbidden the sales of the Bible online and restricted the distribution of religious literature, closing down numerous sellers. Individuals who ordered religious texts have also been apprehended and monitored. On...
A believer in Almighty God was detained in May, and her family has not been able to visit her or even get any information on her whereabouts. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, over 100 members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement,...
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...