The Belgian NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers reports on 20 cases of extra-judicial killing of members of The Church of Almighty Good in China On 29 April 1997, Xie Yongjiang learned that one of his friends had been arrested for preaching. Fearing that his friend’s...
A confidential document from Zhejiang reveals that CCP plans to spend $ 58,600 in academic “studies” supporting its campaign against banned religious movements listed as xie jiao (“heterodox teachings”). Bitter Winter has received a confidential document that includes...
In April, Germany deported back to China an Uyghur asylum seeker who “disappeared” after his repatriation. Now, Germany has apologized for the “mistake,” yet plans to deport on August 31 Sister Zhao of The Church of Almighty God, who will likely “disappear” as well....
A member of The Church of Almighty God was arrested at the Shanghai airport after she came back from Japan. On July 18, 2018, Tan Ruihua (pseudonym), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, who had worked in Japan for the...
Authorities in Ningxia Hui autonomous region arrested a man and put him in prison for merely helping a friend who is a member of The Church of Almighty God. In July 2013, officials from Guyuan city Public Security Bureau detained Liu Cheng (pseudonym) for transporting...
The authorities carried out a series of arrests in Liaoning, which were pre-planned and designed to target Christians. Bitter Winter has reported extensively about an organized operation, during which the authorities at the end of June carried out mass arrests of...
In the July-August 2018 of The Journal of CESNUR, sociologist Massimo Introvigne discusses the notion of fake news, and how CCP organizes international campaigns of fake news to justify the persecution of certain groups, with a case study of The Church of Almighty...
This cruel torture method that leads to severe physical and psychological damage is often used to interrogate religious believers in China. The Chinese government signed the United Nations Convention against Torture in 1986 but has never complied with it. Law...
A husband of a member of The Church of Almighty God was told to divorce his wife if he wanted a Communist Party position in their village. Wang Gairong (pseudonym) from Yuzhou city, Henan Province, is a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new...
Since April 2018, the Chinese authorities have been implementing a national campaign against The Church of Almighty God. In Jiangsu Province alone, at least 350 Church members have been arrested to date. As Bitter Winter has reported earlier, the mas operations...