A government-sanctioned Protestant church in Fujian was persecuted by authorities for inviting preachers from another province to deliver sermons. On September 3, 2017, the Luohua Church, a Protestant church that belongs to the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, in...
Four years ago, authorities mobilized more than 1,000 people to destroy six Buddhist temples in Zhejiang Province. Recently, a witness of the events, a Buddhist herself, told Bitter Winter that four years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) one day destroyed six...
After failing to arrest a believer six times, the police posted an online alert to capture him. Liu Yan (pseudonym), the leader of a house church in Heze city, Shandong Province and a believer since 1993, has been wanted by the police for years. In 1997 alone, the...
The authorities have been forcing Christians to attend “Sinicization of Christianity” course to preach a CCP friendly version of faith. In July, authorities in Liaoning’s Shenyang city organized a training course at the Northeast Theological Seminary. The course,...
Authorities in Xinjiang have been handing out illegal sentences of over ten years to Chinese Muslims. The Chinese Communist Party-backed authorities have been detaining Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Hui Muslims under a suspected violation of Article 120 of Chinese Criminal...
In a veiled attempt to crush house churches, the authorities have been pressurizing landlords that rent out space to Christians. Because the Chinese authorities often demolish house churches when they find out about them, the believers find it convenient to rent a...
Bitter Winter received a video showing how authorities in Fujian Province’s assaulted local villagers who were defending their land. On March 28, 2016, authorities in Gutian county, Ningde city, Fujian Province forcibly seized 345 mu (approximately 57 acres) of...
Two women went to Henchi city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region where they were taken into custody for spreading the gospel; one of them was detained, and the other was sentenced to three years in prison. House church members from Guilin – Li Xia and Fang En –...
Hired criminals recently razed a temple in Hubei to the ground, even though it had all government permits in place. On April 14, the municipal government of Danjiangkou city in Hubei assembled personnel from the Public Security Bureau, Religious Affairs Bureau and...
The Chinese authorities deport North Korean defectors back to their country in violation of international human rights agreements. Zhang Li, a man in his sixties from Linjiang city, Jilin Province, told Bitter Winter that two years ago, his North Korean wife of 18...