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

Recent arrests highlight Beijing’s deep ideological hostility to religious life, which flourishes even in the face of repression.

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 ...

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 ...

Buddhism originated around the fifth century B.C.E. in India, but today, more Buddhists live in China than India. Han Buddhism, the dominant branch of Buddhism in China, has blended with local belief ...

The State Department’s latest report detailing freedom of religion around the globe found that China remains one of the world's top offenders of human rights, particularly when it comes to its ...

Religious citizens in the Henan province of the People's Republic of China must register with the government's new "Smart Religion" app in order to participate in worship services. Religious members ...

In 2016, when President Xi Jinping delivered a speech calling for the “Sinicization of religion” in a nation of one billion, he was espousing a century-old impulse among his people while also ...

A pastor of a prominent underground church in China was detained, according to his daughter, a church pastor and a group that monitors religion in the East Asian country. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri of the ...

As if on cue, the Chinese Communist Party last month reasserted its intention to reincarnate the next Dalai Lama – a rather rich assertion from a group that has repeatedly called him a separatist, a ...