Three victims tell stories of ordinary persecution for the Muslims, arrested simply for growing a beard, wearing a headscarf or reading the Quran. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established in 1955. History, however, has proved that it is “autonomous” in...
The bishop of Zhengding of the underground Catholic Church has been in and out of detention since 1989, and is still kept under strict surveillance. Hebei is an important base for the Catholic Church in China. For many years, bishops and priests from the underground...
Arrest and imprisonment of two family members have led to mental problems and death. Chen Chong from the city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province, a believer since her childhood, was born in 1958. She joined The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...
The police arrested a member of the Church of Almighty God after they followed her for days, which led them to other Church members. On May 9, 2018, Huang Yue, a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested by the...
Two sisters who were co-workers in a house church in Liaocheng city, Shandong, faced cruel persecution by the Chinese Communist authorities since 2008. Dong Lingyun and her younger sister Dong Lingxia (pseudonyms) have been arrested and imprisoned multiple time for...
A house church leader from Shanxi was arrested in July 2017 and imprisoned for six months; 70 members of the same church were questioned after his arrest. According to an inside source, on July 31, 2017, officers from a local police station apprehended a house church...
A married couple of believers was arrested in Jiangsu Province, their 13-year-old son questioned by the police. At about 11 a.m. on June 21, officers from the police station in the city of Pizhou, Jiangsu Province burst into the home of a couple, who are members of...
Four co-workers of a house church in Bin county of Harbin city were apprehended by the police during a church meeting; they were later sentenced to long prison terms. In May 2014, the leader of the house church, Cao Hong (pseudonym), and three co-workers were...
The police repeatedly interrogated an elderly couple from The Church of Almighty God and arrested eleven members from the same church, in the city of Chongqing. On April 16, 2018, a married couple of believers in Almighty God, Zhang Jianjie and Xia Wennian...
Students and teachers were investigated and punished for possession of Islamic or Christian texts, or if they failed to report the religious beliefs of their family members. Bitter Winter has reported repeatedly about the persecution of Muslim believers in Xinjiang,...