Party Uses Bribes to Break up Underground Church
United Front Work Department dangles money, corrupt business deals as bait to lure underground Catholics into joining the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
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Followers of Christ Forced to Follow the Party
Bitter Winter has reported about the massive effort underway to register all Christians. The registration work is ongoing, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is more and more putting to use the information collected to transform Chinese belief.
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Henan: 410 Religious Meeting Venues Closed in Xinxiang City
Henan province, in Central China, has seen some of the worst religious persecution, and has served as a model for repression across China. An anonymous government insider provided Bitter Winter with data regarding religious persecution that occurred in Henan Province’s Xinxiang city in 2018.
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House Churches Closed for Being “Anti-Chinese”
With the pretext of preventing “western forces” from threatening to the CCP’s regime through religion, the authorities are sparing no efforts to suppress and shut down house churches.
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China’s High-Tech Surveillance State: a “Digital Despotism”
Skynet, Sharp Eyes, Operation Knocking on Doors, Web-Cleaning Soldier; these are just some of the terms used by China’s state security to describe the draconian surveillance systems deployed to identify, monitor, track, and persecute scores of millions of Chinese citizens, especially ethnic minorities and religious groups.
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Chinese Communist Party Going After the Military’s Christians
Chinese officials instructed a military unit in China’s eastern Shandong province to investigate the religious status of all military personnel, according to an insider. The notice included strict instructions to check and register each individual, including those omitted from previous investigations, such as new recruits, retirees, or those on vacation or hospitalized. All results of the probe will be entered into the “military personnel religious status registration system.”
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The Church of Almighty God’s Refugees in Japan: A Statement at the United Nations
As of January 2019, 270 members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG), a Chinese Christian new religious movement, have escaped China and applied for asylum in Japan. None of the requests has been granted.
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Religious Freedom in China, Bitter Winter discussed at the European Academy of Religion
Launched two years ago, the European Academy of Religion is becoming the largest gathering in Europe of scholars of religions and theologians. The conference of March 4-6 in Bologna, Italy, is being attended by some 1,200 academics and religious activists from all European countries and beyond.
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Reporting Boxes and Tip Lines to Stop Religion in Villages
Religious belief is common among China’s rural population, representing the most significant base of believers. In an effort to attack religion at its core, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been mobilizing the masses to monitor and report each other using a variety of means. The latest tool is the revival of Cultural Revolution-era tip-off measures.
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World’s Largest Cliff-Carved Guanyin Statue Demolished (VIDEO)
Another Chinese cultural icon is nothing but rubble after government officials in Pingshan county, under the jurisdiction of Shijiazhuang city in northern Hebei Province, detonated and destroyed a standing Guanyin statue, which was carved out of a cliff and measured 57.9 meters in height on February 2, 2019.
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