Countless places of worship suffer devastating consequences as local authorities do anything to please CCP’s visiting higher-ups. by Li Mingxuan In September, the Liaocheng city CCP committee in the eastern province of Shandong dispatched 12 teams to 36 towns and townships inRead More →
The CCP intensifies sanctions on Christian Sunday schools and summer camps while strengthening patriotic education to foster the new generation of Party followers. by Ye Ling In August, the Nanping city government in the southeastern province of Fujian prohibited aRead More →
Adherents to this banned religious movement, a key target of CCP’s persecutions, were taken into custody in Jiangxi, Henan, and Guangdong provinces. by Wang Yong From June to September, the government of the southeastern province of Jiangxi launched several operationsRead More →
After being arrested by the CCP police for their faith, members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) are mostly subjected to torture during interrogation. Many of these Christians are injured and disabled as a result. “The CCP’s detention houseRead More →
On top of removing crosses, Chinese authorities order to replace Christianity’s main symbol on churches’ seals with the five-pointed star. by Ye Jiajia In July, the government of Lanling county’s Dazhongcun town, administered by the prefecture-level city of Linyi inRead More →
Online Bookstore Owner Charged with “Illegal Business Operations” International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Chinese Christian online bookstore owner, Chen Yu, was charged with “illegal business operations” on September 27. He was sentenced to seven years in prisonRead More →
Increasingly criticized by the international community for crackdowns on people of faith, China’s regime enforces more stringent measures to cover up its crimes. by Gu Xi A few months after Bitter Winter was launched, the CCP designated it an “overseas hostile website” forRead More →
The story in John 8 is presented to Chinese students as one where the Savior waits for the Pharisees to leave, then stones the adulterer himself. by Massimo Introvigne Every Christian knows the story. It is told in the Gospel of John, 8:3–11.Read More →
It’s increasingly hard for unregistered Protestant churches to survive, as numerous venues are closed to make believers join the official Three-Self Church. by Yao Zhangjin On July 28, the Public Security Bureau of Nanbu, a county in the prefecture-level city of NanchongRead More →
Teenage members of The Church of Almighty God are given hefty sentences, tortured and indoctrinated, and deprived of visitation rights when in detention. by Gu Xi On June 29, the People’s Court of Jianshui county, in Honghe Hani and YiRead More →
Throughout the province, local authorities cracked down on state-run Protestant churches to implement the central government’s order to eliminate crosses. by Lu An Bitter Winter reported on June 9 that crosses had been removed from over 250 state-run Three-Self churches in theRead More →
Mass arrest operations were planned across China before the coronavirus outbreak. If it were not for the pandemic, even more people could have been detained. by Gu Xi As Bitter Winter has previously reported, some local governments throughout China intensified social stability maintenanceRead More →
Using pandemic restrictions as a pretext to check residents’ identity, authorities hunt down believers from this banned religious group. by Zhou Xiaolu In 2019, China’s government launched yet another nationwide crackdown campaign against The Church of Almighty God (CAG), theRead More →
Christian Li En recounted how the CCP ruined his family: his mother in her 60s with various illnesses was arrested and detained, and he and his aged and ill father were pursued by the CCP and had no choice butRead More →
Banned from displaying religious symbols at home, believers are forced to hang images of Xi Jinping instead to continue receiving state benefits. by Zhang Feng Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the governments of Henan, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Shandong, and other provinces have beenRead More →
Amid the CCP’s nationwide cross removal campaign, a state-run and a house church in a Zhejiang Province village were attacked by government-hired security guards. by Zhao Mingzhe A little past 4 a.m. on July 7, officials from Yongjia county governmentRead More →
Attacks on house churches across China intensified in the past few months, as police and government officials raid places of worship and intimidate congregations. by Shen Xiang On June 28, a group of four, led by the deputy secretary ofRead More →
The volume published this year by Oxford University Press has now its own video introduction. by Marco Respinti Bitter Winter has already introduced to its readers the new book by its editor-in-chief Massimo Introvigne, Inside The Church of Almighty God: The Most PersecutedRead More →
Members of The Church of Almighty God share their experience manufacturing goods for foreign companies while serving time in prison for their faith. by Lu An Factories and workshops have been built in almost every prison in China, where inmatesRead More →
A member of The Church of Almighty God recounts three years and six months in detention where he was forced to eat cockroaches and banned from the toilet for days. by Deng Jie The Church of Almighty God (CAG) is aRead More →
Countless members of this Christian new religious movement are blacklisted in China and are harassed and persecuted for years, pressured to renounce their faith. by Lu Xiu Once they are arrested for practicing their faith, most members of The Church ofRead More →
