Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 14, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received information about events surrounding the arrest of almost 20 members of a house church in the Dadong District of the city of Shenyang, which the police raided in January this year....
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 14, 2018 Bitter Winter has recently received an account about the death of a 52-year-old house church member in January 2016. Ji Yuxin from Sijia Township in the city of Beipiao, Liaoning Province, joined the church in 1998...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 14, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prohibits its members from having religious beliefs and demands to expel those who belong to religious organizations. Even family members of CCP card holders are discouraged from...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received a believable report that, on October 29, 2017, at about 3:40 p.m., more than a dozen policemen broke into a house church in the city of Yichun, Jiangxi Province, where Christians...
Article based on direct reports from China, June 11, 2018 The number of people of faith who suffer from government persecutions in China is growing at an alarming speed. Facing the brutality and injustice from authorities, believers are left aggrieved, indignant and...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 30, 2018 On May 5, 2018, a village official from Wuzhi County, which is part of the prefecture-level city of Jiaozuo, Henan, used an electric drill to remove four Chinese characters 以马内利(meaning “Emmanuel”) on a horizontal...
Article based on direct reports from China, May 28, 2018 Ark School in Xiaohe, a town situated in Xun County, near the city of Hebi, Henan, was founded by a local Christian, Ms. Liu in 2015. The government refused to issue the documents it needed because of its...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 28, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned that, on May 6, 2018, the police raided a house church meeting place in Xiaoguan, a town in Henan near the city of Gongyi, arresting seven Christians. At about 2 p.m. that day, four...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 25, 2018 In the morning of March 22, 2018, over 100 police officers and officials from various departments surrounded a house church established by Koreans in the Yirenwaitan residential community in the county-level city of...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 Bitter Winter continuously receives direct reports from China about the government’s activities to crack down on various religions in the country. Quite often, the ways the authorities harass the believers is hard...