Local authorities in parts of China are organizing “alternative” events nearby the places of worship in an attempt to deter people from participating in religious activities. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, authorities in Henan have been inviting traditional opera troupesRead More →
Bitter Winter continues exposing the lies by Chinese authorities about the “transformation through education” camps. In an interview, an employee in one such internment facilities in Xinjiang spoke about quotas for detainees, the categories into which they are divided, andRead More →
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist to death for taking an unsanctioned Muslim holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to his brother. Abdughapar Abdurusul, of Bakyol district in IliRead More →
The church’s pastor was detained and the believers were prohibited from congregating at the venue again. On September 9, over 100 believers were in a congregation at a house church in Henan’s Xinyang city when they were ambushed by moreRead More →
Authorities in the eastern province of Zhejiang have detained a Catholic bishop, weeks after an agreement between Beijing and the Holy See aimed to unify the state-sponsored and Vatican-endorsed, underground churches in China. Bishop Peter (in Italian, Pietro) Shao ofRead More →
Officials at a university in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are forcing students and staff to forgo their Muslim dietary restrictions in favor of traditionally pork-heavy Han Chinese cuisine, saying halal food is associated with religious extremism. A reportRead More →
In a new move aimed at bringing Tibetan Buddhist monasteries more closely under the control of the Chinese state, authorities are now grooming carefully chosen monks to learn and represent the views of the ruling Communist Party, a rights groupRead More →
Authorities in China have slapped a travel ban on more than 100 Protestant Christians en route to a religious training event in South Korea, RFA has learned. State security police at airports in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou issued the travelRead More →
On September 23, Longtian Catholic Church, which is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fuzhou, was holding a solemn mass when over 10 local plainclothes police officers suddenly broke into the church and arrested Father Lin Jing’en. The mass was forced to stop.Read More →
A Christian woman was first refused her medication, and later, the police swapped it. That caused her further medical problems. In June, Feng Suqin (pseudonym) was arrested from her home in Shaanxi’s Ankang city for being a member of TheRead More →
