Seven believers were arrested in Shanxi and have been through severe torture in the course of interrogation. In March 2015, seven Christians from a house church in Shanxi’s Xing county were traveling to Ordos city in Inner Mongolia. A local believer, who wanted to...
The Belgian NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers reports on 20 cases of extra-judicial killing of members of The Church of Almighty Good in China On 29 April 1997, Xie Yongjiang learned that one of his friends had been arrested for preaching. Fearing that his friend’s...
A recently released pastor struggles to live a normal life after a brutal prison sentence. In March 2014, Zhou Xi (pseudonym) was arrested for preaching the gospel. Mr. Zhou was a pastor at a house church in Inner Mongolia. 34 other believers were detained along with...
Authorities have kept a close watch on an elderly Christian and harassed him one way or other all his life. On July 27, three officers from the Yongcheng city police station barged into the home of 70-year-old Dong Li (pseudonym). He was not at home, so the police...
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...
This cruel torture method that leads to severe physical and psychological damage is often used to interrogate religious believers in China. The Chinese government signed the United Nations Convention against Torture in 1986 but has never complied with it. Law...
A Christian man who was arrested and became half immobile due to torture was forced to return to prison. In October 2015, officers from a local police station in Inner Mongolia’s Wulanhaote city arrested Wang Qiang for his Christian faith (pseudonym). He was sentenced...
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...
According to a new book, the notorious practice of “harvesting” organs from Falun Gong and Uyghur prisoners of conscience has been extended to members of The Church of Almighty God. During the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom of 23-26 July 2018, attended at...