On the morning of August 27, 2009, at around 8:30 a.m., Xiaokang (pseudonym, female, 41 years old at the time, from Yichun City), a Christian from The Church of Almighty God (CAG), had just walked downstairs when she was stoppedRead More →
Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province are holding three Tibetan monks in detention for launching solo protests this month challenging Chinese rule, Tibetan sources say.Read More →
A member of the Shouters’ movement from Henan Province who had been in exile for more than 20 years was captured by the Chinese authorities and later received a lengthy prison sentence. He Jie (pseudonym) from Yongcheng city, Henan Province,Read More →
After the local police forcibly removed their churches’ crosses, believers traveled to Beijing to talk to the central authorities but were sent back and later detained. In May 2015, local public security officers forcibly removed crosses from multiple churches inRead More →
The authorities arrested a Christian couple in 2005 and continue to monitor them despite their long sentence. In December 2005, Zhang Rendao (pseudonym) and his family were traveling from Kunshan city to northern Jiangsu. While passing through the Jiangyin YangtzeRead More →
Concerns are growing over the health of a detained rights activist in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, who has been held for nearly two years in pretrial detention. Ge Jueping was among a group of at least nine rightsRead More →
A Maoist activist who supported a campaign to set up an independent workers’ union in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has been “kidnapped” and is being detained in an unknown location, prompting further protests by labor activists, RFA has learned.Read More →
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan are holding an outspoken artist who supported a woman sent to a psychiatric hospital for splashing a poster of President Xi Jinping with ink, RFA has learned.Though later released from police detention, Read More →
As soon as fugitives use their credit card or show their ID documents for hotel check-in or for purchasing a train ticket, they are identified and arrested.Read More →
A musician who sang about late Nobel peace laureate and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo stood trial on Friday in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on public order charges.Read More →
A house church member from Yucheng in Dezhou city, Shandong Province was apprehended after buying an online ticket to go to a religious event.Read More →
More information has been revealed about the arrest of 700 members of The Church of Almighty God on June 26-28 in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party authorities’ massive crackdown on The Church of AlmightyRead More →
On May 20, 2018, a Beijing Christian of The Church of Almighty God was intercepted and arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport by Beijing State Security Bureau after her arrival from travel abroad.Read More →
Bitter Winter has just received a believable report that, on October 29, 2017, at about 3:40 p.m., more than a dozen policemen broke into a house church in the city of Yichun, Jiangxi Province, where Christians were gathering for prayer.Read More →
Around 5:00 p.m. on May 19, Xia Wei (pseudonym, female, 21), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested by the Chinese government in Chongqing along with ten other members of the congregation.Read More →
On 23 May 2018, Yang Shihua, member of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea, was arrested in Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) upon her return to China from South Korea. Since her arrest, her family has been unable to locate her.Read More →
Police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have detained 17 Christians after they gathered for memorial prayers for the victims of the massacre that ended the 1989 student-led protests on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.Read More →
The religious suppression and persecution by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is escalating, placing Christians at risk of arrest. Recently, two incidents occurred in Renqiu City, Hebei Province, resulting in houses of Christians ransacked and one of the Christians detained illegally.Read More →
On April 1, 2018, Chinese Communist authorities released a notice about the special crackdown on The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. Afterward, eight local Christians of this church were arrested by Chinese Communist police in the short span from April 10 to 15.Read More →
A Tibetan monk missing since traveling from India more than a year ago to visit his family in Sichuan has been found jailed by China on an unknown charge, Tibetan sources say.Read More →
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have jailed a group of Protestant Christians for up to 13 years for involvement in an “evil cult,” their lawyer said on Thursday.Read More →
