Religious Persecution

Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Their Belief

Three members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) – Liu Junhua, Yao Shuzhi, and Wu Baozhen – were gathered in the home of a fellow believer in Mudan district of Heze city in China’s eastern province of Shandong on October 24, 2017, when more than ten plainclothes police officers stormed in by kicking down the door. The three believers were writing down their experiences of believing in Almighty God, as part of their religious practices. The officers arrested all of them on suspicion of “using a xie jiao organization to undermine law enforcement,” stating that believing in Almighty God meant breaking the law. ...
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Jehovah’s Witnesses Hunted Down and Deported

Not only are Jehovah’s Witnesses facing a severe crackdown in China, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is also supporting other countries’ similar crackdowns. As Bitter Winter reported earlier this month, a Russian court sentenced Danish citizen Dennis Christensen, a Jehovah’s Witness, to six years in prison for extremism. While international organizations and democratic countries condemned Russia’s crackdown, the CCP-connected anti-xie jiao website, published an article in support of Russia. ...
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No Christian Couplets for Spring Festival

In China, the New Year has brought nothing new: The Chinese Communist Party is still enforcing political propaganda on believers, even going so far as to insist that Party-worshiping couplets are hung in their private residences. Chinese couplets – a form of Chinese poetry – is a tradition spanning generations when people write their wishes, often on red paper, and hang them on the gates of their homes. Spring Festival couplets are the most common and traditional form to celebrate the Chinese New Year. ...
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