Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 The police arrested a house church leader in Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County in the city of Dandong, Liaoning Province, almost three years ago. During the arrest, in the house of the preacher, they found a list...
House Churches
Ten House Church Members Still Detained After Arrest in March
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Ten house church members were arrested on March 2, in Shandong Province’s Qihe County, the city of Dezhou, and are still kept in detention for more than three months after their arrest.The day of the arrest was...
Arrested For Being a Christian: A Preacher’s Story
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Bitter Winter has reported repeatedly about the persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang. However, religious persecution in Xinjiang also targets Christians, according to reports and documents we keep receiving. Officers...
Believe in God in China? Get Ready to Be Persecuted For Years to Come
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received an account from four house church members from a village in Jilin Province about their persecution for religious beliefs that has been continuing for three years. At 9 o’clock on...
Police Persecution for Belief Leads to Mental Disorders
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 Persecution of religious groups in China, especially those that the government tags as “evil cults” quite often results in detention and arrest of believers causing severe consequences for them and their family...
Arrested Once, House Church Members Face Future Persecution
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....
Death of a House Church Member
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...
No Religion for Communist Party Members in China
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...
Police Stormed House Church and Detained 18 Christians in Yichun, Jiangxi
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...
Remembering the Emmanuel Church in Liaoyang
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...
