Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 28, 2018 On April 28, a private school established by the Rock Church in Zhengzhou, Henan, organized a park trip for students. When the children were dancing to praise the Lord, the park staff interrupted them and threatened...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 26, 2018 A source told Bitter Winter that, on May 6, 2018, government officials in the county of Mianchi, Henan, broke into a Christian’s house and ravaged religious possessions. A little past 11:00 a.m, Fan Yuling...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 27, 2018 Recently, Bitter Winter has received many reports of discrimination against Christian students in public schools. On April 27, 2018, Wang Chenyang (pseudonym, male, 13 years old), a 5th grader in the city of...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 A source told Bitter Winter that, on April 20, 2018, the vice-principal of a school in the city of Gongyi in Henan Province ordered a student to change clothes because she wore a jacket with a cross pattern. It is...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 Bitter Winter continuously receives direct reports from China about the government’s activities to crack down on various religions in the country. Quite often, the ways the authorities harass the believers is hard...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 21, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned about the arrest of a member of the Shouters – Christians in the tradition of Chinese preachers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee that have been long targeted by the Chinese Government. After...
Daniel H. Williams is professor of patristics and historical theology at the Department of Religion of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The author or editor of six books, he has also been active in teaching in China since 2006.
Massimo Introvigne The launch of Bitter Winter has been greeted by a good media coverage, and has been covered with sympathy by several human rights and academic blogs and websites, from France to Australia. We did expect different reactions, too. One day after...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 18, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned that at about 2 p.m. on April 15, 2018, the police raided a local church in the city of Bengbu, Anhui, arresting more than ten believers who attended the meeting. According to inside...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 15, 2018 Since mid-April 2018, the town government in Linzhou, Henan, has dispatched many people to all villages under its jurisdiction to work with local village officials and disrupt Christian religious activities. On May...