Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 Fifty-one crosses have been taken down from Christian sites of worship in the city of Gongyi, Henan Province until early June 2018, states the Special Operation Briefing, a copy of which Bitter Winter has received....
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 A 36-year-old Christian from a house church was arrested in the early hours of the morning in her home and detained for a year. Even after her release, she is still surveilled and persecuted. Only because of her...
Article based on direct reports from China, June 11, 2018 The number of people of faith who suffer from government persecutions in China is growing at an alarming speed. Facing the brutality and injustice from authorities, believers are left aggrieved, indignant and...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 11, 2018 On the morning of April 16, the Changcun town government in Changyuan County, in Henan Province’s Xinxiang city demolished a Protestant church in Beixinxing village claiming that the church building was illegal. A...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 The public security police, the SWAT police and urban management officers from Jilin Province’s Jilin city seized a church near a residential community called “Beijijiayuan” on May 8, taking away four Christians. At...
Article based on direct reports from China, May 28, 2018 Ark School in Xiaohe, a town situated in Xun County, near the city of Hebi, Henan, was founded by a local Christian, Ms. Liu in 2015. The government refused to issue the documents it needed because of its...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 20, 2018 On May 1, Bitter Winter reported that the government demanded installation of surveillance cameras in Beijing Zion Church. After the Church manifested its dissatisfaction with the government’s decision, its water...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 20, 2018 On April 16, 2018, a township government in the city of Shangqiu, Henan, forcibly demolished a church under the excuse of building a culture square. At around 4 p.m., two excavators parked in front of the church,...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 18, 2018 Sources from mainland China report that the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Religious Affairs jointly...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 11, 2018 A Christian church, established about 15 years ago, sits on a mountainside in Meikeng Village, Qiaoxia Town, Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province. In the past, four big shiny golden Chinese characters meaning...