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,...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 As part of the intensified campaign to crack down on religious freedoms, Chinese authorities have recently banned the sale of the Holy Bible in the country. Christians have reported being unable to buy it online or...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received a believable report that, on October 29, 2017, at about 3:40 p.m., more than a dozen policemen broke into a house church in the city of Yichun, Jiangxi Province, where Christians...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 3, 2018 On May 19, 2018, about 200 believers from Xiangning County, which is part of the prefecture-level city of Linfen, Shanxi Province, gathered at Yingli village to attend an inauguration of the new church building to...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 30, 2018 On May 23, Bitter Winter reported about seventy-year-old Christian Zhu’s arrest for carrying memory cards that contained religious videos. Bitter Winter received additional information that Zhu lost her...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 30, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned that, on April 28, 2018, the Long’an District Government in Anyang, Henan, used a crane to demolish the cross of Shenjiagang Church, which was still under construction.