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4 days ago · The Development of Christianity over the Past 40 Years. In December 1978, China began its reform and opening up, and in 1979, the church in China started to resume gatherings, with the first one being the Ningbo Centennial Church; the official reopening ceremony was held at the Shanghai Moore Memorial Church.
2 days ago · This can be interpreted as the government’s orderly, step-by-step effort to erode and change the content of Christianity itself, wearing the sheep’s clothing of the “Sinicization” of Christianity, while it’s true intention is to alienate the Chinese church and believers with the heart of a wolf, and to cause Christianity to gradually ...
3 days ago · The government supports the further contextualization of Christianity and the development of church personnel, ensuring Christianity is passed on to future generations. Pillay was pleased to see how a governmental institution in China cares for both domestic and international religious affairs. This commitment to religion is highly commendable.
3 days ago · This finding, human rights activists and scholars told CNA, is not surprising given the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts in recent years to suppress the practice of Christianity. 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 ...
1 day ago · Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
3 days ago · The era of digitization is revolutionizing traditional humanities research, presenting both novel methodologies and challenges. This field harnesses quantitative techniques to yield groundbreaking insights, contingent upon comprehensive datasets on historical subjects. The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) exemplifies this trend, furnishing researchers with a rich repository of ...
1 day ago · Through a religious studies class at an international high school in Beijing, he says he picked up a few ideas about Christianity—that God loved people, for one thing. But he had also picked up the cultural ideas popular in China that Christianity was a white, colonialist religion brought in during the Opium Wars, he says.
