Provincial Communist Party boss calls on temple’s new leadership to protect reputation and return to ‘true teachings’ during ...

Religious repression in China is no longer limited to demolition and closures as the regime has undertaken more subtle and ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. China regularly ranks among the worst-performing countries on freedom of religion. That makes sense, given the crackdown on ...

COMMENTARY: Today’s false conviction demonstrates the Catholic media magnate’s personal heroism, and the demise of Hong ...

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 ...

Shangri-la is best-known as a fictional place—an idyllic valley first imagined by a British novelist in the 1930s—but look at a map and you’ll find it. Sitting at the foot of the Himalayas in ...

Falun Gong emerged in China in 1992, a time of a spiritual renewal in a land still under Communist rule, but one recovering from the horrors of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Drawing on Buddhist ...

Some churchmen are trying to spread the notion that the Chinese Communists are really being kind to Christians. A fortnight ago, Anglican Bishop K. H. Ting of Chekiang appeared at the World Council of ...

Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more ...

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 ...