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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...