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 ...

Fears about the decline of Christianity in China might be completely unfounded. People of faith there face persecution, but that undermines the reliability of data about religion.

The changes take place shortly after the death on Saturday of Bishop Placidus Pei Ronggui, a hero of the underground Catholic ...

Christianity in China has stopped growing since 2010, according to an academic paper. "In 19 nationally representative surveys conducted since the early 2000s, the authors find no clear evidence that ...

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 ...

In 2016, when Xi, China’s president and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, first announced his policy of “Sinicization” of religion in his country, the response of the Vatican ...

China had witnessed a dramatic growth in Christianity in the 1980s and 1990s when restrictions on the practice of religion that were imposed during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s ...

Here are six facts about Buddhism in China, based on Pew Research Center’s recent report, “Measuring Religion in China.” The report analyzes surveys conducted by academic groups in China and Chinese ...

At a hearing this week on Capitol Hill, one pastor said: ‘There is a real price to pay for being a true Christian in China.’ An interfaith discussion is underway with the House Select Committee on the ...

In the long history, different religions have been introduced into China, and there are few conflicts and confrontations with religion as the background, which is very rare.

We examine the linkage between religious involvement and life satisfaction among adults in contemporary China, a largely nonreligious society. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies (2012, ...