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Religious persecution

China to Require all Places of Worship to fly the National Flag, Expanding Xinjiang Policy

August 3, 2018

State-sanctioned religious associations in China have proposed a measure that would require all places of worship to fly the national flag, according to state media, in an expansion of a similar policy enforced on mosques in the largely Muslim Xinjiang Read More...

An Urgent Appeal to Chancellor Angela Merkel

August 2, 2018

We are NGOs active in the field of religious liberty, and write about the urgent situation of a Chinese refugee, Ms. Zhao, currently detained at the Aufsichtsund Dienstleistungsdirektion Landeseinrichtung für Asylbegehrende und Ausreisepflichtige in Ingelheim, after she resisted forcible deportation Read More...

A Secret Documents Details the Plan for Persecuting the Movements Listed as Xie Jiao

July 29, 2018

Bitter Winter has received and publishes a confidential document detailing how the persecution of the movements listed as xie jiao (“heterodox teachings”) should be conducted between April 2018 and January 2019. The Church of Almighty God is the primary target.

Members of The Church of Almighty God on The Run Arrested Through The Use of China’s Global Surveillance System

July 29, 2018

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.

US Officials, Lawmaker Slam China Over Religious Persecution of Ethnic Uyghurs

July 28, 2018

Top U.S. officials and a U.S. lawmaker have called out China in recent days for its treatment of ethnic Uyghurs in the country’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), slamming Beijing for what they said was a systematic effort to Read More...

Beijing House Churches Call for Freedom to Practice Their Religion

July 25, 2018

Dozens of unofficial Protestant "house churches" in Beijing issued a statement on Tuesday calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to respect their constitutional freedom of religion.

Voices From XinJiang: Bitter Winter Interviews Victims of Persecution

July 23, 2018

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established in 1955. History, however, has proved that it is “autonomous” in name only. There is no “autonomy” for the Muslims.

The Mcdonald’s Murder Remembered at The World Congress of Sociology

July 22, 2018

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,” a process aimed at filtering the Read More...

Church of Almighty God Members Arrested Across ShanDong

July 22, 2018

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 Read More...

Witnesses’ Accounts of the June 26-28 Arrests IN DanDong City

July 20, 2018

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 Read More...

Bitter Winter’s Rosita Šorytė Calls for Protection of Church of Almighty God Refugees in Brussels

July 1, 2018

Members of the European Parliament, NGOs, and international institutions expressed great interest for the first Faith and Freedom Summit organized by the Alliance of Conservative and Reformists in Europe, the third largest European political group, at the Solvay Library in Read More...

Catholics in France Show Concern About Religious Persecution by the CCP

June 30, 2018

ADHRRF – On June 19, 2018, Christians from The Church of Almighty God (CAG) were invited to screen a film reflecting the religious status of China at the Centre Bergère of a Catholic church in Paris, France, in the hope that Read More...

Scholars, NGOs, Lawyers Protest Fake News and Persecution of The Church of Almighty God

June 22, 2018

On June 20, 2018, during the yearly conference of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, which is taking place in Nantou, Taiwan, Professor Massimo Introvigne, editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter reviewed the scholarly literature on fake news, and analyzed Read More...

Chinese Government Demolishes Mosques in Xinjiang

June 20, 2018

Bitter Winter has reported about the camps for Uyghur Muslims, suppression of cultural identity by removing Muslim signs from public places and religion eradication practices through allegiance swearing ceremonies in schools. The Cultural Revolution-style purges of religions are directed to Read More...

Join Oral Statement 38th Session Human Rights Council (UN Geneva) :Religious Freedom in China

I am talking on behalf of seven NGOs. We are deeply concerned about the situation of The Church of Almighty God (CAG), a Christian new religious movement, which has four million members in China according to the governmental sources.

June 20, 2018

China Launches a Special Campaign to Crack Down on South Korean Christian Groups

June 19, 2018

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 Plan for the Special Campaign on Legal Read More...

Information of Hundreds of Believers Grasped in a Full Investigation in Henan-Luoshan

June 3, 2018

ADHRRF – According to the recent information from mainland China, on the morning of March 6, 2018, the Luoshan County Government of Xinyang City, Henan Province, held a special conference on cracking down on religious beliefs. It stipulated that from Read More...

The Church of Almighty God Won Resistance to Religious Persecution Award at Italian Music Festival

May 19, 2018

ADHRRF – 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 Read More...

Hebei Renqiu Police Illegally Arrest Christians and Raid Houses

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, Henan Province, resulting in houses of Christians ransacked and one of the Christians detained illegally.

May 2, 2018

Human Rights Lawyer Carlos Iglesias: Repatriating Chinese Christians Is Putting Their Lives at Stake

January 30, 2018

Since the Chinese Communist Party came into power, it has been oppressing religious beliefs and frantically arresting and persecuting Christians. In recent years, some Chinese Christians have been forced to flee overseas because of their faith. However, their asylum applications Read More...