At the XIX World Congress of Sociology, the largest gathering of sociologists in the world, organized by the International Sociological Association in Toronto, Canada, a session was devoted on July 20, 2018, to “gatekeeping,” Read More →
Classified document exposes the Chinese government’s plans to crack down on South Korean Christian missions in Shanxi Province. A classified document obtained by Bitter Winter reveals that the CCP puts great emphasis on propaganda aiming to increase the restrictions forRead More →
ADHRRF – Recently, a document about deployment of banning religious venues issued by the government of Zhuanghe City in northeast China’s Liaoning Province was exposed (see photos). This document shows that since 2017, the authorities has begun to crack downRead More →
Bitter Winter has learned that house church Christian Qiao Gang (pseudonym) of Shangqiu City, Henan, was summoned to a local police station on May 4 of 2018, and has not been heard from since. When Qiao’s family inquired into the matter,Read More →
ADHRRF – On June 30 of 2018, the 6th Human Rights Festival was launched in Cologne, Germany by six organizations, including Menschenrechte Köln and Allerweltshaus Köln eV. Amnesty International, Association for the Defense of Human Rights and Religious freedom (ADHRRF), and some other human rights organizations participated in this event. The theme of this festival is “Fleeing and Immigration,” around which a wide range of activities took place.Read More →
Fifty-one crosses have been taken down from Christian sites of worship in the city of Gongyi, Henan Province from early June 2018, states the Special Operation Briefing, a copy of which Bitter Winter has received.Read 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 →
Sources from mainland China report that the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Religious Affairs jointly created the PlanRead More →
At the Thirty-eight Session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, which starts in Geneva on June 16, the NGO CAP-LC, which enjoys consultative ECOSOC status at the UN, filed a document denouncing the arbitrary detention of thousands of members of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, in China. 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 →
On April 17, authorities demolished a Catholic church in the city of Gongyi, Henan Province, claiming that it was built unlawfully. According to the priest at the church, Father Yang (pseudonym, 54 years old), the Gongyi Religious Affairs Bureau andRead More →
On May 22, 2018, the Justice Court of Perugia, Italy, annulled a decision by an administrative commission, that had denied an asylum request by a female member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, and granted her refugee status.Read More →
Daniel H. Williams is professor of patristics and historical theology at the Department of Religion of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The author or editor of six books, he has also been active in teaching in China since 2006. Read More →
On May 10, 2018, the five-day “FIRMA (International Festival of Religions through Music and Arts)—Faiths in Tune” was opened at Royal Club Turin in Italy. At the conclusion of the festival on May 14, a roundtable on the theme of “religion, Read More →
According to reliable sources, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued a document in 2018 about completing a full-scale investigation and crackdown on Christians across the country within one year.Read More →
After the 19th Party Congress, Chinese Communist authorities’ control and persecution against house churches continue a rising trend. The persecution of The Church of Almighty God is especially more severe.Read More →
Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect, the control and repression of religious belief by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been ever-escalating. Read More →
In early February 2018, Henan Luoyang Bureau of Religious Affairs held meetings of municipal departments and religious groups to strengthen the special punitive campaign against religious faith further. Read More →
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has asserted its control over all religious practices among its citizens, suggesting that the Vatican will only have limited control over the Chinese Catholic Church in the event of a bilateral deal on the appointment of bishops.Read More →
Recently, the rejection of 70 Chinese Christians’ asylum applications in the Czech Republic has aroused the concerns of local people from different walks of life.Read More →
On Sunday, November 12, 2017, more than 600 churches in France held an event on the theme of opposing persecution. The Christian couple Lila and Pite from a house church in Mainland China were invited to share their experiences of persecution for their belief.Read More →
