On the run for over ten years, preacher Shi Yuliang from Zhejiang Province is unable to come home, and his family is constantly harassed by the police. The 49-year-old preacher, Shi Yuliang (pseudonym), from Ningbo, Zhejiang, was arrested in the city of Guangzhou in...
Xie Jiao Organizations
Christians Suffer Increased Persecution in Hechi, Guangxi
Local government and law enforcement have raided many religious venues and arrested believers in the city's Dahua and Donglan counties in previous months. On June 6, 2018, six officials, including court employees and police officers from the Public Security Bureau of...
Like a Lamb to the Slaughter: Will the United States Send This Woman to Her Death?
A leader of The Church of Almighty God is threatened with deportation to China, where she will be at risk of being executed. This may be the most important article published by Bitter Winter to date. It is, literally, a question of life and death. It regards an asylum...
Local Church Co-Worker Sentenced to Four Years for Storing Church Literature
Wang Zhaogang (pseudonym, 53) was a co-worker in the Local Church and owned his own factory in the Lanshan District of Shandong Province’s Linyi city. In June 2014, the police closed down his factory under a pretext of conducting a tax inspection. While searching the...
Christian Couple in Xinjiang Sentenced for Years, Family Members Harassed by Authorities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 On September 26, 2016, a Christian couple from Nilka County, Yili city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was arrested by the police of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and later sent to prison to serve long...
Shandong House Church Leader Seriously Ill After Torture and Imprisonment
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 A house church leader from the Wanfu Office in the city of Heze, Shandong Province, was forcibly taken away from his home by the police in the summer of 2013 and was subjected to brutal torture and long-term...
Two House Church Members Kept in Detention for a Year, Families not Allowed to Visit
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 On July 3, 2017, two members of an underground house church in Yuncheng city, Shanxi Province were arrested by the police on their way home from sharing the Gospel in Xinjiang County, Yuncheng City. They were then...
House Church Member Imprisoned for Two Years
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 Chinese authorities arrested a 34-year-old house church member from Benxi city, Liaoning Province, for his faith and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment for the crime of "using a xie jiao organization to...
Entire Christian Family Sentenced to Prison or Fined for Their Faith
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 The whole family of four from Dongdu town in Xintai, a county-level city in Shandong, was arrested by Chinese authorities for their belief, in the course of a few years and either sent to prison or fined. As...
Five House Church Members Detained for 15 Days in Jilin
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 In April 2018, of a group of Siping Public Security Bureau officers surrounded the meeting place of a house church in the town of Shijiabu, Lishu County, Siping city in Jilin Province. Without providing any...



