China News News China » Religion: Why China is cracking down on Christians—and what Beijing fears most
In recent years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has ramped up its enforcement of religious-regulations, particularly targeting Christian communities—both official and underground.
News China » Religion: Decades after religions shaped China’s Tianmushan, authorities tackle protecting reserve
HANGZHOU, China — On a misty morning in Zhejiang province, the peaks of Tianmu Mountain rise like sentinels above the forest canopy, their slopes wrapped in shifting veils of cloud. For centuries, ...
News China » Religion: Persecuted Chinese pastor recounts torture, warns CCP 'trying to crush' religion: 'A heavy burden'
WASHINGTON — Ding Shuqi, a pastor from the persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, urged the world earlier this week to remember the suffering of Chinese Christians, whose freedoms he ...
News China » Religion: China’s Christian population appears to have stopped growing after rising rapidly in the 1980s and ’90s
The Chinese government banned religion during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. And although Christianity and other religions bounced back in the 1980s and ’90s as restrictions were ...
News China » Religion: China's Changing Religious Landscape
More people in China are taking up religious and devotional practices. As they do, they form local organizations that provide a communal identity at the margins of Party control and influence. Karl ...
News China » Religion: US must address China’s escalating war on religion
As President Xi Jinping of China and President Trump meet this week, the question before both leaders is not only trade or tariffs, but what kind of relationship the U.S. will have with a China that ...
News China » Religion: Religion: Christianity in China
Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year—a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the part ...
News China » Religion: My Top 5 Books on the Sinicization of Christianity in China
Works to help readers parse the differences between cultural assimilation and political domestication. The word Sinicization usually means assimilation into Chinese culture, particularly the language, ...
News China » Religion: Decades after religions shaped China’s Tianmushan, authorities tackle protecting reserve
If you liked this story, share it with other people. For more than a millennium, Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian traditions in China have shaped conservation practices at Tianmu mountain, with beliefs ...