Uyghur human rights scholar and activist Zubayra Shamseden tells Bitter Winter that CCP sees all Uyghur as enemies, is engaged in the largest detention of an ethnic group since World War II, and has now extended its repression to other Muslim minorities.
In a veiled attempt to crush house churches, the authorities have been pressurizing landlords that rent out space to Christians. Because the Chinese authorities often demolish house churches when they find out about them, the believers find it convenient to rent a...
Two women went to Henchi city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region where they were taken into custody for spreading the gospel; one of them was detained, and the other was sentenced to three years in prison. House church members from Guilin – Li Xia and Fang En –...
A South Korean-sponsored Christian house church in Heilongjiang's Hegang city was closed down after a raid by the police. On June 17, 2018, more than 100 police officers broke through three gates guarded by believers to raid the meeting place of a South Korean house...
In an incident from Anhui, the police disrupted a house church gathering by firing warning shots. In November 2014, a gathering was underway at a house church in Anhui’s Hefei city when police officials stormed inside. To intimidate those present, the police...
The Chinese authorities have been demolishing and shutting down churches, and their reasons for doing that are now becoming increasingly unsound. Bitter Winter has reported extensively from Henan about the demolitions and shut down of the state-sanctioned Protestant...
A house church in Changsha city, Hunan Province was shut down and over 2,000 books, including copies of the Bible, were confiscated and burned by Chinese authorities. On the morning of July 14, 2018, Wen Yu (pseudonym), the leader of a house church in Changsha, a...
The authorities have issued orders that small gatherings of two to three believers are to be reported as well. Ever since the implementation of the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs in February, the Chinese authorities have intensified their assault on house...
The shutdown of a Shandong church has left over 70 deaf Christians without a place to worship. In May, the Good New Church in Shandong’s Qingdao city received a notice from the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Religious Affairs and the Public Security Bureau that the...
A husband and wife, members of a house church, were reported and arrested for organizing a congregation meeting. In the morning of October 21, 2016, the public security bureau of a county in Chuxiong city, Yunnan Province dispatched three squad cars and over ten...