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 ...

A human rights group active in China is reporting that religious believers in a populous Chinese province are now required to register on a government app in order to attend worship services. ChinaAid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For Islamist Hamas, Jews are enemies, even more than Israelis. The massacres carried out against civilians were not as much an act of war as an anti-Semitic pogrom, similar to those perpetrated in ...

As Chinese people increasingly see pets as beloved friends, the question of what to do when a cat or dog passes away has many ...

Drafts of a basic law on religion conflict with more than 25 current laws, and there is no need for the legislation, as the ...