Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 The congregation of a Three-Self church in Fujian Province’s Aoqian town, Pingtan County, Fuzhou city, could not find a good gathering place, so a few years ago, they raised money and bought a plot of land. Despite...
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Police Ransacked a Three-Self Church in Qinghai Province
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 In April 2018, a dozen members of a Three-Self church in Ledu District of the city of Haidong, Qinghai Province, were holding a meeting when the landlord of the apartment came in and told them to leave the...
Forty Gathering Sites of Three-Self Church Closed Down in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 Forty gathering sites of the Three-Self Church - the government-controlled united Protestant church - in Guanyintang town, Henan Province, were forced to close down in a period of few months, after the new...
Authorities Tore Down Church’s Cross With the Help of Local Thugs
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Last year, government officials in the township of Yugan in the city of Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, ordered a local Three-Self Church that belongs to the official united Protestant church controlled by the...
Party Official Organized Convicted Offenders to Beat Up Believers in Church
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 A senior Chinese Communist Party Official in the city of Zhoukou, Henan Province organized offenders serving their sentence outside of prison to go to a Three-Self Protestant church and beat up believers,...
Communist Party Seized a Church And Turned It Into Office of Village Committee
A small Three-Self Church in Henan Province, fell victim to the Chinese Communist Party’s large-scale persecution of religions.
Three-Self Gospel Church Was Demolished in Fujian
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 Recently, Bitter Winter has received reports and photographic evidence from Fujian Province about an incident that happened in 2016, which proves that not even the communities belonging to the Three-Self Church,...
Five Churches in Dalian Seized in One Day
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force on February 1, 2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified the persecution of religious beliefs by seizing and demolishing churches and...
Crackdown on Religion Encroaches on Civil Liberties
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 15, 2018 The increased crackdown on religion this year in China does not only restricts believers from following their faith but also severely infringes on individual liberties. The Communist Party’s draconian measures are...
Believers Stand Gard to Protect the Cross in Gongyi, Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 1, 2018 The local government in Baiyu village in the Henan city of Gongyi is planning to demolish the cross of a Three-Self Church. Believers have been staying in the church day and night to protect the cross since May 24....

