The authorities closed down a charitable institution for children because it was established and run by Christians from abroad. Last month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities shut down the Xinmi Welfare Home, House of Mercy, a home for orphans in Xinmi city...
Since the end of March, the Chinese authorities have forbidden the sales of the Bible online and restricted the distribution of religious literature, closing down numerous sellers. Individuals who ordered religious texts have also been apprehended and monitored. On...
The CCP targets Christian students at universities in Shaanxi, Liaoning, and Jiangxi Provinces. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) firmly believes in controlling the spread of religious faith at the university level, as young students tend to play pivotal roles in...
The authorities refused to issue tourist visas to citizens wanting to visit South Korea. Following the implementation of the new Regulations of Religious Affairs, Chinese citizens of Christian faith are finding it difficult to obtain permission to travel out of China....
Three Christians were sentenced to jail time two years after they were protecting a government-approved church’s cross from being torn down in Zhejiang. In March 2013, Zhejiang provincial government launched a three-year (2013–2015) “Three Rectifications and One...
A house church in Jilin was destroyed in mid-July, and over 200 believers were arrested; now, they will lose their home, because the local authorities have ordered to demolish their 8-story residential building. The two-story house church in the Ningjiang district of...
Bitter Winter has received reports from Lanzhou city in Gansu Province where ten believers at a family church were illegally detained and severely tortured for their belief. On May 25, two believers, Hao Zhen and Lin Qiang (all names are pseudonyms) were in the local...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has mobilized people from all walks of life to gather information on believers and report on them. The CCP has implemented a reward-based reporting system and has mobilized sanitation workers, community building supervisors, retired...
A believer was reprimanded for a church that she has financed to build, and authorities demanded to demolish it. In March of 2014, Li Susu (pseudonym), a house church Christian from Guangyuan city, Sichuan learned that her cancer went into remission, and she decided...
A woman suffered constant physical and mental abuse while in prison for her belief in God. In May 2018, the police in Jiangxi Province’s Jiujiang city arrested a woman, Aizhen (pseudonym) for her Christian belief. The officers also snatched away her phone and...