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A Life in Jail: Shouters Co-worker Repeatedly Detained

Numerous Christians who are locked up in Chinese prisons were arrested and sentenced due to their beliefs only. Among them, Christians belonging to denominations blacklisted by the CCP as xie jiao have received the harshest sentences. The Christian group known as the Shouters, which has a long and complicated history, was banned as a xie jiao in 1983, long before the CCP’s list of the xie jiao was established in 1995. ...

2019-03-272019-03-27

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“Hanification”: Uyghur Children Cut off From Their Roots

As Uyghur parents are taken away for re-education, children are surrounded by barbed wire, forbidden to speak their language. ...

2019-03-262019-09-11

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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. ...

2019-03-25

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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. ...

2019-03-202019-09-11

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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. ...

2019-03-182019-09-11

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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. ...

2019-03-152019-09-11

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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. ...

2019-03-132019-09-11

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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.” ...

2019-03-112019-09-11

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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. ...

2019-03-092019-09-11

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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. ...

2019-03-072019-09-11

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