Several government efforts are underway to severely curtain religious belief in Linfen, a bustling city in China’s Shanxi Province. Earlier this year, the Chinese Communist Party blew up the Golden Lampstand Church in Shanxi’s Linfen city. The church had more than...
In an ongoing assault on the Three-Self church, the authorities have shut down more churches in Henan’s Luoyang city. Bitter Winter has reported extensively about how the implementation of the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs affected all religions in China....
The leader of a Protestant Three-Self church was sentenced to one year in prison for allowing two out-of-town pastors to give a sermon. On September 27, 2017, Chen Shouxin (pseudonym), the leader of a government-controlled Three-Self church in Wuyang county, Luohe...
The local authorities leveled a government-approved Protestant church that had been guarded by its members day and night for three years. On January 26, 2017, during the Chinese New Year, government officials from Baisha town, Zhengzhou city assembled more than 200...
In Shandong, authorities tried to stop believers from protesting a demolition by digging a ditch in front of the church. On June 20, government officials in Xigang town of Shandong attempted to demolish a state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Church. When the village...
A state-sanctioned Protestant church in Zhejiang Province has been harassed on many occasions, once the authorities sent 500 people to demolish its cross. In February 2016, local government officials came to the church and declared that they have an official document...
Churches in Jilin’s Yushu city have been targeted increasingly by the Chinese authorities since the implementation of the new Regulations on Religious Affairs. Bitter Winter has received reports about government-approved Protestant Three-Self churches being demolished...
At least 400 Christians have been left in a lurch as the authorities have shut down their churches, including several Three-Self Churches. On May 6, the personnel of Xinhu’s Fenyi county as well as the local village secretary visited the Zaomushan village’s Three-Self...
The Chinese authorities continue to persecute state-sanctioned churches and religious heads. Bitter Winter has accessed reports as per which, believers at a Three-Self church in Henan were in a meeting when over 30 officials from the local Public Security and...
More reports coming in from Henan where the government is intensifying its attack on Three-Self movement. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is the only Protestant form of church that is officially recognized by the Chinese government. It was officially founded in 1951...