The State Administration for Religious Affairs, China’s primary body overseeing recognised religions, introduced an updated version of the Measures for the Administration of Tibetan Buddhist Temples ...

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

China hopes the current Dalai Lama could "return to the right path" and fully remedy his political propositions, the Chinese ...

ones toward which many have thought the tide would bear us. Any discussion 0f religion in China inevitably forms itself about the three religions­ – Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism. Most Chinese ...

China continues to violate the right to freedom of religion, although the worst forms of persecution -- long-term imprisonment and physical abuse of religious activists -- appear to have eased ...

Some responses were candid, others disappeared moments later — but all revealed something about the state of the Catholic ...

Missionaries have now become a serious embarrassment to their Chinese Christian friends. This is one of the reasons why most U.S. Protestant missionaries are pulling out of China, according to Dr ...

China's Communist Party is exerting its influence over Islam China's Communist Party is exerting its influence over Islam "The religion was living and now, it's like it's dying," he says.

Yet it’s also worth reflecting on the limited tools that the Chinese government has to deal with the situation due to its parallel wars on both religion and civil society. The two are closely related ...

From 1910 to 1936 he was on duty in China. From 1937 to 1940 he was globe ... with totalitarianism makes him think its attacks on religion and democracy may in the long run be a good thing.

People in a coastal province in China are convinced that the actress who played a popular deity in a TV series is actually the real thing and kneel before photos of her. China’s top political ...