December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. The third is devoted to the real meaning of religious “sinicization.”
Featured China
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (II): High-tech Surveillance Measures
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. The second is devoted to how high-tech surveillance is used to violate human rights.
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (I): Religious Persecution
December 10 is Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles summarizing typical cases of violations of human rights in China. The first is devoted to religious persecution.
China’s Anti-Christian Student League of 1922: Preparing the Persecution
Arguments and campaigns of the 1920s against Christianity were still used in subsequent decades, from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping.
Resolute to Persevere, Christians Worship in Dire Conditions
A collection of Bitter Winter reports on how Christians in China continue practicing their faith, in the face of persecution, deprived of places to worship.
Mongolian Buddhism: Under the Shadow of the CCP
Since 2012, Buddhists in Mongolia are without an officially recognized Jebtsundamba, their local leader. Beijing claims Mongolia should only enthrone a CCP-friendly Jebtsundamba – or else.
True Jesus Church: A Chinese Pentecostal Movement
Founded in 1917, and severely persecuted in the 1950s, this movement whose story is told in a new scholarly book by Melissa Inouye, accepted to join the Three-Self Church—but is now at risk again.
Article 300: CCP’s Secret Weapon of Religious Persecution
A study of 200 court decisions published in the scholarly Journal of CESNUR demonstrates that living a normal religious life in a banned group is enough to go to jail in China.
September 22: First Anniversary of the Vatican-China Deal
Time for a sober assessment of the agreement. While it would be excessive to state that all Chinese Catholics oppose it, its application is problematic, dissident priests are persecuted, and underlying theological issues on religious liberty remains unsolved.
Missionary and Martyr: Father Friedrich Hüttermann (1888–1945)
The story of a German priest who became a key figure in the Catholic missions to Shandong before being killed in 1945.