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. On July 14, Bitter Winter reported that on June 26 at least 500 members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, were arrested in Liaoning Province as part of the nation-wide crackdown on The Church of Almighty God …
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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. Dissident songwriter Xu Lin holds a sign leaving his possessions to his wife in the event of his ‘disappearance,’ July 11, 2015.                                        …
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A house church member from Yucheng in Dezhou city, Shandong Province was apprehended after buying an online ticket to go to a religious event. The CCP’s official media report on the “No. 1 Central Document” demanding increased crackdowns on rural religious activities (online screenshot) In January 2018, Liu Fangfang (pseudonym) bought a plane ticket online to attend a religious event in Taiwan and was arrested at her mother’s home right …
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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 Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, on June 26-28, had been planned months in advance of its execution. It resulted in the arrests of 700 believers in Almighty God, …
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ADHRRF – 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. She was illegally detained and interrogated for 5 days. Beijing Capital International Airport / by Zhanyanguange / CC BY-SA 3.0 It is learned that Zixuan (pseudonym, female), a Christian of The Church of Almighty God from Changping District …
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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. Without producing any credentials or a warrant, the police rummaged through the house, turning it upside down. The church’s preacher Zhang Ming (male, 59) demanded the police on whose authority they …
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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. The Public Security Bureau enforced residential surveillance of Xia Wei at her residence for the crime of “suspected use of a xie jiao organization to undermine the enforcement of the law.” In the …
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Returning to China to seek medical care, Yang Shihua was arrested in the Beijing Capital International Airport HRWF (05.06.2018)- 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. Yang Shihua, born in …
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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. Chinese police officers arrest members of the Qiuyu Protestant church during a gathering in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan province, June 4, 2018.
Photo courtesy of church members Members of the Qiuyu, or Early Rain, Protestant …
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ADHRRF – 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. At 2 p.m. on March 26 2018, Renqiu police burst into the house of Sun Sufang (female, 70, Christian from The Church of Almighty God) in a bid …
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Xin Shoulai (pseudonym, 56) and his wife Xia Chunxia (pseudonym, 54), living in Fuxin City in Liaoning Province, are both Christians of The Church of Almighty God. A little past 4 p.m. on September 9, 2018, when Mr. Xin and his wife were arrested by 6 police officers from Jinzhou National Security Brigade, they were waiting for the train home at Jinzhou City Rail Station after dealing with some affairs in …
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Xiang Xinsheng (pseudonym, male, 26 at that time), living in Shenyang City in Liaoning Province, is a Christian of The Church of Almighty God. At about 9 p.m. one night in October 2015, Xiang Xinsheng and another 24-year-old Christian Wang Lin (pseudonym) were intercepted by three police cars when they had just finished the church work and were on the way to their temporary residence in Liaozhong District in Shenyang City …
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Bai Siyu (pseudonym, female, 37) is a Christian from The Church of Almighty God. At about 9 a.m. on January 17, 2019, Bai Siyu was held by the staff member with Exit-Entry Administration Bureau in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province when she went there to apply for a passport, and was told that she was listed online as wanted by the police. At about 2 p.m., she was escorted to the local …
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Jian Anyun (pseudonym, female, 55 at the time), living in Dandong City in Liaoning Province, is a Christian from The Church of Almighty God. At about 10 a.m. on November 21, 2018, Jian Anyun had just got back home from going out for errands when she was arrested by the officers from local police station who had conducted a stakeout of her house. The police officers wrestled her to the …
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A member of The Church of Almighty God was illegally arrested and inhumanely interrogated for 25 days, eventually, ending up in a hospital. According to sources, on April 26, Liu Xin (pseudonym), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was shopping with her granddaughter when three or four plainclothes police officers suddenly arrested her. They handcuffed Liu Xin, escorted her home, and raided …
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The prison guards at the Jiujiang city detention center subjected a member of The Church of Almighty God to severe torture and humiliation for days. Xinlian (pseudonym), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was taken into detention from her home in Jiangxi’s Jiujiang city in June. Seven police officers from the National Security Brigade raided her home and used the religious material …
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Two house church pastors were apprehended while preaching in Xinjiang; a colleague tries to secure their release but is arrested and tortured herself. In December 2017, two pastors from a house church in Songyuan city, Jilin, were arrested while preaching in Huocheng county of the Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang. Another preacher from their church went to a local police station to negotiate their release but was apprehended herself, …
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Nationwide “Operation Thunder” against The Church of Almighty God is in full force in Shandong Province. Since May of this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has launched “Operation Thunder,” cracking down on The Church of Almighty God (CAG), a Chinese Christian new religious movement, throughout different regions in different provinces of China. Bitter Winter has reported on mass arrests in Chongqing City, Jiangsu Province, and Liaoning Province, currently …
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The wife of a jailed Chinese rights lawyer caught up in the July 2015 crackdown says he is suffering from memory loss in prison, raising concerns that the authorities may be dosing him with psychoactive medications. Jiang Tianyong was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on charges of “incitement to subvert state power” last November, after he pleaded guilty at what his family said was a show trial in August. Chinese …
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HRWF (27.11.2017) – The Chinese government has conducted nationwide mass arrests of members of the Church of Almighty God on charges of “endangering the social stability” and “subverting the government”. Church members claim that the government has fabricated rumors, slander, and used radio, television, the internet, and media channels to propagate derogatory reports against the group. Members report being subject to arbitrary searches of private property, secret arrests, extorted confessions …
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Liu Jixia, female, born on May 19, 1965, resident of Daiwan North Village, Daiwan Township, Linqing City, Liaocheng Prefecture, Shandong Province; honestly and kindly disposed, joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in 1999, later became a CAG church leader. In 2007, while preaching the gospel in Guan County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, Liu Jixia was arrested and sentenced by the police of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). During incarceration, …
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In March 2012, a tragedy occurred when a Christian from The Church of Almighty God was arrested and secretly murdered because of helping his fellow Christians to buy and exchange electronic goods. Victim Mr. Ye Aizhong, 42 years old, was from Yuelai Town, Shuyang County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province. He joined The Church of Almighty God in 1999 and had been a preacher in the Church before his murder. Below …
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Hou Kequan, male, born May 18, 1949, resident of Tanghe County, Henan Province, started believing in the Lord Jesus in 1994, and joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in October 2002. On May 18, 2003, Hou was arrested by the police of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for believing in Almighty God. He was imprisoned for one year and nine months. During his incarceration, he was brutally tortured by …
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Wang Hongli, female, was born on December 18, 1975, and lived in Xiangyun County in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture located in Yunnan Province. She joined The Church of Almighty God in 2011. On August 20, 2014, she was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party police because of her belief in Almighty God, and on March 24, 2015, she was sentenced to five years in prison. While serving her sentence, …
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Liu Jinsheng, male, born on October 17, 1940, lived in Wanzai County in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province. He joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in 2004. He had worked in traumatology as a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, had an outgoing personality, and was in good health. In September 2009, after police with the Wanzai County Public Security Bureau learned that Liu Jinsheng was the custodian of 160,000 RMB of …
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Ms. Ma Suoping (Spiritual Name: Youling), 40 years of age, was a resident of Shuangfengyan Village, Shuanghe Township, Xiangning County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. In 1999, she joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG). Before she was murdered, she was one of the main leaders of The Church of Almighty God in mainland China. At around 2 o’clock in the afternoon on July 17, 2009, more than 20 plain-clothed policemen …
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On January 4, 2013, The Church of Almighty God (CAG) leader Jiang Guizhi was arrested by the police because of her belief in Almighty God and subsequently died whilst being detained by the authorities. She was 46 at that time. Jiang had lived at Jiankang Road, Qinghe District, Pingyu County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province. She joined The Church of Almighty God in November 2002, and prior to her death had …
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Victim Zhang Laigu was female, 35 at the time, and lived in Nanling County, Wuhu City, Anhui Province. She joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in 2003 and was responsible for spreading the gospel. She was outgoing, lively, and cheerful. At the end of 2012, Zhang was arrested under false pretext by the Chinese Communist Government in Shanghai when she was spreading the gospel, and she died in custody …
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On December 10, 2012, Xu Xinyao (alias: Li Hong), a Christian from The Church of Almighty God, was arrested by the authorities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for believing in Almighty God. On January 7, 2013, he was killed during incarceration at the age of 49. Born on July 16, 1964, Xu was a resident of Dongshe Village Group 3, Longchi Township, Pucheng County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province. He …
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Ms. Zhang Ruixia, born in 1961, was a native of Qingfeng County, Puyang City, Henan Province. She joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in 1991. In June 2014, more than ten policemen, headed by Captain Ma Zhihong of Linzhou City Public Security Bureau’s National Security Brigade, arrested Zhang because of her belief in Almighty God. Zhang was tortured to death during detention at the age of 53. It was …
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