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The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration

What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know

Under Xi…steps toward liberalization have ended and even reversed…. Xi has removed term limits on his rule, called upon the media to serve the party, arrested outspoken lawyers and feminists, and renewed pressure on house and official churches; all sectors…have fallen under the CCP’s oversight and control.

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Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization

What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?

What are we to make of last year’s announcement that the official Protestant group leadership, the national Three Self Patriotic Movement association together with the China Christian Council, gathered to discuss a five-year plan for 2023–2027? Do China’s official churches typically have five-year plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about […]

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Unmasking China’s “Official” Church

China's " official" churches (those operating under the auspices of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement) are fairly often associated with terms such as "restrictive," "government-sanctioned," or even "Communist-controlled." Granted, one does not have to look too far within China's religious bureaucracy and its associated policies and practices to find evidence that would justify such notions. […]

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A Nestorian Grave Site

In the historical news department, the Catholic news service UCA recently wrote about the discovery of a gravesite in Henan Province that is believed to be a burial site of the Nestorians, the earliest Christians to reach China in the Tang Dynasty.

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House Church and TSPM: Surprising Admissions in China’s Official Press

A recent article appearing in Global Times, the English-language mouthpiece of the authoritative People's Daily, raises interesting questions about how China's leaders view the relationship between the official and unofficial church.

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Policy, Implementation, and Shifting Official Perceptions of the Church in China

[…] of incidents mentioned at the outset of this article continue to occur, this gray area between “normal,” or registered, religious activities and those activities that result in official prosecution has grown significantly. Without discounting either the reality of incidences of Christian persecution or their seriousness, what is remarkable is how much Christian activity takes […]

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Islam has the largest number of under-30 believers in China?

Christian Today has posted an article with this headline: “Islam is the most popular religion for under-30s in China." The lead says: Islam has the largest number of young believers in China, new research has found, despite the growth of Christianity in the country and an atheist government. The China Religion Survey 2015, released […]

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When Your Phone Becomes a Substitute for True Relationships

[…] said, “I would rather you killed me, too!” He responded, “If they hadn’t seized my knife, I would have killed even you.” This boy used his mobile phone to read hundreds upon hundreds of Wuxia (martial arts and chivalry) novels, becoming intimately connected to these internet stories, yet hardening his heart and distancing himself […]

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Beyond “Two Camps”: The Complex Relationship between Official and Unregistered Church in China

[…] religious policy, and in the unregistered church community, all of which have brought, and continue to bring, a new level of complexity to the relationship between China's official and unregistered church streams. These developments have resulted in a tense yet synergistic relationship between these two main segments of the church. The Chinese Communist Party […]

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Public Transcripts and Official Agendas

[…] for understanding this document. One of the things that Vala writes about is the importance of what he calls the “public transcript”—public displays of conformity to the official agenda that are required in authoritarian states. Once an official agenda has been announced (in this case Sinicization), all sectors within society must publicly display that […]