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Chilling Details Emerge About Pastor’s Detention

Chilling Details Emerge About Pastor’s Detention

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...

Coordinated Arrest of Believers in Suzhou, Anhui

Coordinated Arrest of Believers in Suzhou, Anhui

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...

University Student Forced to Drop Out Because of Her Faith

University Student Forced to Drop Out Because of Her Faith

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...

Only One Mosque Left in Bashisihu Township Wusu City

Only One Mosque Left in Bashisihu Township Wusu City

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 Falsify Transcripts to Sentence Believers

Police Falsify Transcripts to Sentence Believers

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...

CCP Detains Uyghur Man, Wife Being Harassed

CCP Detains Uyghur Man, Wife Being Harassed

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...

Four South Korean Preachers Deported

Four South Korean Preachers Deported

Four South Korean missionaries were arrested in the cities of Dandong and Dalian in May this year and were later deported. Kim Eunseoung and Wang Sukyeong (both are pseudonyms) were apprehended in Dandong city, where they were conducting missionary work. The police...