Additional information has emerged about the arrest of 71 believers in Henan’s Shangqiu city. Earlier in August, Bitter Winter reported about the arrest of 71 Christians from a house church in Henan. We have received information that one of them was tortured and ten...
Four years ago, several co-workers and more than 70 believers of a house church in Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan Province, were arrested; one of them was severely beaten while in custody. At noon on March 31, 2014, over ten officers from the National Security Brigade...
The persecution and closures of house churches in Liaoning Province have increased after the Chinese government adopted special legislation earlier this year. Bitter Winter has received information that since this spring, at least 40 gathering places of house churches...
Hundreds of Christians from across China were arrested during a large religious gathering in Hubei Province. A Christian named Xu Meilan from a house church in Xian’an High-Tech Development Zone, Xianning city, Hubei Province, invited more than 500 Christians from her...
Harassed because of his religious activities and two trips to Taiwan, a house church leader was forced to hide from the authorities for years. The leader of a house church in Pandian town, Qihe county of Shandong Province, Jin Xin (pseudonym), has traveled to Taiwan...
Jail authorities ordered cellmates to pour buckets of ice water daily on a believer imprisoned after a Christmas get-together of church members. On December 25, 2015, Wang Dong (pseudonym) and over ten other Christians of the Life Church were holding an annual...
A believer was arrested in 2015 and sentenced to two years in jail for believing in a heterodox religious movement. Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code states that “using” a xie jiao (heterodox teachings) is a crime punishable with jail penalties from three to...
A house church in Jilin was destroyed in mid-July, and over 200 believers were arrested; now, they will lose their home, because the local authorities have ordered to demolish their 8-story residential building. The two-story house church in the Ningjiang district of...
A believer was reprimanded for a church that she has financed to build, and authorities demanded to demolish it. In March of 2014, Li Susu (pseudonym), a house church Christian from Guangyuan city, Sichuan learned that her cancer went into remission, and she decided...
Four South Korean missionaries were arrested in the cities of Dandong and Dalian in May this year and were later deported. Kim Eunseoung and Wang Sukyeong (both are pseudonyms) were apprehended in Dandong city, where they were conducting missionary work. The police...