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Church of Almighty God members give accounts of detention, interrogation and torture UCA News reporter, Hong Kong April 30, 2021 Communist China has continued its crackdown on religious groups and practices by arresting and abusing hundreds of members, accusing them of being associated with entities that the state authorities deem illegal. From January to March this year, some 750 members of the Church of Almighty God were arrested, interrogated and tortured in various Chinese provinces including Jiangsu, Henan and Sichuan. At least 123 members were detained and abused in Jiangsu province in...

China brutalizes religious groups with repressive policies Church of Almighty God members give accounts of detention, interrogation and torture Updated: April 30, 2021 09:46 AM GMT Trending Members of the Church of Almighty God meet outdoors in China to avoid police surveillance. (Photo: Bitter Winter) Communist China has continued its crackdown on religious groups and practices by arresting and abusing hundreds of members, accusing them of being associated with entities that the state authorities deem illegal. From January to March this year, some 750 members of the Church of Almighty God we...

I. home When Anar Sabit was in her twenties and living in Vancouver, she liked to tell her friends that people could control their own destinies. Her experience, she was sure, was proof enough. She had come to Canada in 2014, a bright, confident immigrant from Kuytun, a small city west of the Gobi Desert, in a part of China that is tucked between Kazakhstan, Siberia, and Mongolia. “Kuytun” means “cold” in Mongolian; legend has it that Genghis Khan’s men, stationed there one frigid winter, shouted the word as they shivered. During Sabit’s childhood, the city was an underdeveloped c...