Personal accounts of the arrested believers in Almighty God during the “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the massive crackdown on The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, in Liaoning Province,...
The authorities have demolished a yet another church despite it being a legal structure. In April this year, the local authorities in Henan’s Luohe demolished a government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church, citing planning and reconstruction as their reasons....
Primary level students in Harbin city were questioned about the religious belief of families, ostracized and beaten for the same. On June 11, classes were in session at a primary school in the Yilan County of Harbin when the headmaster went on rounds, questioning...
Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor from Zhejiang Province, discloses details of being detained in a water dungeon. In June 2015, the local police of Qianxi arrested and detained Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor in a house church in Hangzhou, in the Guiyang airport. He was accused of...
On March 10-25, 2018, the police in Suzhou implemented organized arrests of believers. One of them was an elderly family church presbyter in a village in Xiao county. At 2:00 p.m. on March 23, 68-years-old family church presbyter Wu Jie (pseudonym) went to the clinic...
A university student and a member of The Church of Almighty God in Liaoning Province was arrested because of her faith and was later forced to quit her studies. On June 27, 2018, five officers from a police station in Jinzhou city, Liaoning Province burst into a...
In an exclusive interview, a teacher in Xinjiang talks about life as a government cadre in the “home-stay” program. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, a massive “home-stay” program is being implemented in Xinjiang since the beginning of this year, with over one...
In just one month, 13 of the 14 mosques in Bashisihu township of Wusu city in Xinjiang were demolished by authorities, and the one that remains is already entirely under the Chinese Communist Party’s control. A source informed Bitter Winter that in the Bashisihu...
Police officers in Liaoning Province, deliberately falsified interrogation transcripts to sentence five preachers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for “using a xie jiao organization to undermine law enforcement.” On November 10, 2015, Yang Jie (pseudonym) of...
An Uyghur couple from Xinjiang under government-sanctioned persecution. The local police in Shanshan County detained an Uyghur man in May this year. His wife, Ms. Gulnur (pseudonym) says his crime was reading Quran with an imam for a month thirty years ago. As per the...