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China regularly ranks among the worst-performing countries on freedom of religion. That makes sense, given the crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs and the the destruction of Christian churches. These are the ...
News China » Shanghai » Religion: Chinese Bishop Focused On Adapting Faith to Communist Party Ideals, Shanghai Catholics Say
A Chinese bishop with a history of support for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) emphasized in a recent diocesan seminar the socialist state’s influence over the Church more than the Vatican’s, ...
News China » Shanghai » Religion: China Introduces Strict Rules In Xinjiang On Islam, Other Religions
In a move set to tighten government control over practicing religion in China's western Xinjiang Province, the Muslim-majority region will introduce a set of regulations that -- among other things -- ...
News China » Shanghai » Religion: Opinion: 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 » Shanghai » Religion: China: Religious Regulations Tighten for Uyghurs
(New York) – The Chinese government’s revised regulations in the Xinjiang region tighten controls over the religious practices of the predominantly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs, Human Rights Watch said today ...
News China » Shanghai » Religion: China Detains Church Leaders as Crackdown on Religion Intensifies
BEIJING—Chinese authorities are widening a crackdown on Christian groups, this week detaining church leaders in southwestern China as officials across the country intensify a campaign to root out ...
News China » Shanghai » Religion: China-appointed Panchen Lama vows to make Tibetan Buddhism more Chinese in meeting with Xi Jinping
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese. Gyaltsen Norbu ...