Police in Shandong Province shut down a family church, following the implementation of the new Regulations on Religious Affairs. In March 2014, Wang Xilan (pseudonym) built a church under the guise of a nursing home in Dezhou city of the Shandong Province. Believers...
In a tactic that is reminiscent of Cultural Revolution, people of Christian faith were publicly humiliated by parading them in streets. During China’s Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s to 1970s, a large number of people who were seen as violators of any kind by...
Xin Shoudao from Henan Province has been left impoverished after paying hefty amounts in fines in the past one year to the Chinese government. Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has resorted to various methods of torture and persecution of...
Arrested by the police, a member of The Church of Almighty God, managed to escape, forcing authorities to start a manhunt, promising local population financial rewards for tip-offs. Kang Min (pseudonym) is a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian...
The Chinese police practice “soft” torture violence, aiming at destroying person’s spirit by using psychological pressure instead of physical force. Since the beginning of April, the Jiangsu provincial police launched a unified operation aimed at The Church of...
Authorities forcibly took away Islamic-style architectural symbols from the rooftops of residential buildings in the city of Yinchuan. According to informed sources, in late-March 2018, several cranes were driven into the Luhuazhou community of the Xixia district in...
The Catholic Henan Regional Seminary is an essential part of the province’s religious and cultural heritage; authorities recently forcibly demolished the entrance to the seminary. Bitter Winter has recently learned that at 6 a.m. on April 27, 2018, claiming the...
Bitter Winter continues to receive witness accounts about the arrest of more than 700 members of The Church of Almighty God on June 26-28 in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party authorities’ massive crackdown on The Church...
A couple who are both members of The Church of Almighty God were arrested for their belief and tortured with drugs, among other methods. In 1986, China signed the United Nations Convention Against Torture, also known as UNCAT. It was ratified two years later in 1988,...
Two house church pastors were apprehended while preaching in Xinjiang; a colleague tries to secure their release but is arrested and tortured herself. In December 2017, two pastors from a house church in Songyuan city, Jilin, were arrested while preaching in Huocheng...