While Chinese agents, hired thugs and anti-cultists stage false “spontaneous demonstrations” and abuse refugees, hackers launch a massive attack against the website of Bitter Winter, obviously trying to prevent its reporting of the events in Korea
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Christian Man Died Evading Chinese Authorities
A Jiangxi man could not avail medical treatment at the end of his life and died escaping persecution at the hands of CCP. In July 2014, the Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide campaign, known as, “Hundred Day Battle”, to arrest believers of The Church of...
False Demonstrations Against The Church of Almighty God Refugees Start in South Korea
Executing a secret plan that Bitter Winter had revealed one months ago, the CCP brings to Korea relatives of asylum seekers of The Church of Almighty God, and organizes false “spontaneous demonstrations” with the help of pro-Chinese anti-cult activists. On August 4,...
Tortured to Death: A New Book Documents Extra-Judicial Killings of Members of The Church of Almighty God in China
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...
CCP Recruits Academics to Fight Xie Jiao in Zhejiang
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...
Will Germany Deliver Another Victim to Her Persecutors on August 31?
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....
Believer in Almighty God Arrested Upon Returning to China
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...
Imprisoned for Helping a Christian Friend
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...
Preachers Detained in a Series of Coordinated Arrests
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...
Academic Study of CCP’s Use of Fake News Against The Church of Almighty God Is Published
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...