A couple who belonged to a house church in Xiaogan city, Hubei Province was monitored for a long time before their arrest. On May 10, 2018, the home of Chen Jie (pseudonym) and her husband, both members of a house church in Xiaogan City in Hubei Province, was forcibly...
On July 25, 2014, over 10,000 people took part in the demolition of the cross from the Wenling Church in Zhejiang Province. A distinctive clock tower stands on the Chengguan Church in Wenling, Taizhou city, Zhejiang, on which once towered a bright red cross. Today,...
A detained believers’ couple in Jilin Province has learned that the police were issued quotas for arresting the Christians. In the morning of March 2, 2018, Christian Zhang Li used his ID card to buy a train ticket in a town in Songyuan city, Jilin Province. Because...
Authorities in Zhejiang Province prohibited holy names and religious terms on boats, ordering their owners to paint them over. In June 2018, the Fishery Administration Station in Songmen, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province was ordered to refer boats marked with religious...
Thirty officers burst into a house church and arrested 29 believers, later detaining some of them for up to ten days. At about 8 p.m. on March 30, 2018, nearly 30 heavily armed officers from the Pizhou Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province and a local police...
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...
Repeatedly arrested and tortured, a 71-year-old house church leader is still harassed by the police. Liu Yunjin (pseudonym) is the leader of a house church in Daye city, Hubei. She has been arrested by the police three times in the past, tortured, and is currently...
Over the past few months, government-controlled Protestant Three-Self churches in various locations in Henan Province have either been shut down or forced to take down their crosses. After the crosses of the Central Church in the town of Wolong and Bo’ai Church in the...
Bitter Winter has learned that house church Christian Qiao Gang (pseudonym) of Shangqiu City, Henan, was summoned to a local police station on May 4 of 2018, and has not been heard from since. When Qiao’s family inquired into the matter, they were told that he had...
On May 14, 2014, at approximately 9 a.m., 3 officers from a local police station in Guoli town, Huantai County in Zibo rushed into the house of Christian Jiang Jiaming (pseudonym), ordered him to get his wife Cui Yu (pseudonym), who was working the fields at the time,...