Source: Direct reports from Italy Date: June 28, 2018 On June 27, the Justice Court of Perugia in Italy published two orders, no. 462/2018 and no. 459/2018, granting refugee status to two female members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...
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Shaanxi Police Drove 1,000 Kilometers to Arrest Believer in Almighty God
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 A 36-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, Zheng Heng (pseudonym), from Shangluo city, Shaanxi Province, fled his home in 2014 after the police tried to arrest him for...
Police Interrogated Primary School Children to Seek Out Believers
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 The Police interrogated primary school children in Jurong, Jiangsu Province, seeking to find out if there were believers in their families. Officers took some of the children to a police station where one of them...
Persecuted for Years and Tortured, Believer in Almighty God Forced to Renounce Her Faith
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 A member of The Church of Almighty God was continuously persecuted and monitored by Chinese authorities for over five years after she was arrested and tortured for her faith in 2012. Afraid of being arrested again,...
80-Year-Old Believer Suffers Nervous Breakdown Because of Police Harassment
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 An 80-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God suffered a nervous breakdown after continued threats and harassment from the police. The constant intimidation, which continues for over five years, is putting a...
Members of The Church of Almighty God Strictly Monitored After Arrest
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Four members of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, were gathering in one of their homes in the city of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province when a neighbor reported on them to the police,...
After Four Years on the Run, Confined to Home Because of Her Faith
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Four years ago, Chinese law enforcement authorities placed a 55-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, from the city of Shangrao in Jiangxi Province on the most-wanted...
Police Use Tactics of Deceit to Arrest Believers
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 A couple from the city of Linfen in Shanxi Province, members of The Church of Almighty God- a Christian new religious movement, has been listed as wanted persons by the Chinese Communist Party police because of...
Scholars, NGOs, Lawyers Protest Fake News and Persecution of The Church of Almighty God
Source: Direct reports from NGOs Date: June 21, 2018 On June 20, 2018, during the yearly conference of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, which is taking place in Nantou, Taiwan, Professor Massimo Introvigne, editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter reviewed the...
Member of The Church of Almighty God Tortured for Eight Days
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 20, 2018 In April 2018, Zheng Xin (pseudonym), a 42-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, from Pizhou in Jiangsu Province, was unlawfully detained by the Chinese Communist Party...


