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An Invitation from a Friend
[…] for ChinaSource readers. I’d like to invite you to a special multi-day event this August where we’ll explore the engagement between Christianity and Chinese culture from a number of angles, as well as the challenges facing churches in China in our day. Our Friday opening keynote is free and open to the public. Myron […]
Reverse Culture Shock
[…] activities. We became used to it being a time when the whole country stops for a holiday. But now, because we are white and in Australia, our phones are not filled with celebratory messages and photos nor are we welcomed into the celebration. Here it’s a celebration for the Asians in the community, or […]
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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] both official churches and house churches. Not only is the Xi government attempting to forcibly implement religious policy by eradicating house churches, it is also constricting the number of public worship spaces in Three-Self churches, and even announcing efforts to transform the meaning and practices of traditional Protestant worship through the “Sinicization” campaign. The […]
Peoples of China
China’s Migrant Children
[…] Global Times, Feb 25, 2010. http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/507860.html 3If “left behind” children of migrant workers, who remain in the villages without parental care, are included in these statistics, the number rises to 30 million total migrant children in China, comprising 20% of the compulsory school-aged student population. “Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from […]
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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
[…] mobilized to live out healthy lifestyles and give themselves in sacrificial service to others. This is where I believe the Lord is calling His church to be. Susan Hunter in her book AIDS in Asia says that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has broken the illusion of medicine’s control over epidemics. Condoms and antiretroviral medication have […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] from the last question and work backward, from the larger context to the issue of religions. Since Xi Jinping was selected to be China’s top leader in 2012, the People’s Republic of China has entered the End of Era, as a recent book by scholar Carl Minzner put it.4 Students of Chinese politics and […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
The author helps us to understand the workings of the religious affairs bureaucracy first by following the story of an aspiring pastor, then by viewing them historically. The Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Association, China Christian Council, Religious Affairs Bureau and United Front Work Department are all discussed along with how they interact, lines of authority and the role of guanxi.
Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
[…] the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to protect their congregations and lost their lives as a result. Swells is right, of course, that a focus on the numbers of converts was always misplaced; the focus should always be on the faithfulness and integrity of those who do convert, not on whether they are numerous […]
The Never Ending March
A Book Review
The Never Ending March: China’s Religious Policy and the Catholic Church by Sergio Ticozzi, preface by Stephen Baskerville. Hong Kong: Chorabooks, 2018, 183 pages. Shortly after the provisional accord on the nomination of bishops in China was announced by the Vatican and Beijing, Chorabooks released The Never Ending March. Now, two years later, with […]
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Faith Under Party Rule
The Sinicization of Religion in China
[…] leaders make their followers conform to Party agendas. The UFWD has played more or less active roles in different periods of Chinese history. When taking power in 2013, Xi Jinping expanded the UFWD’s resources and mandate to make it reach deeper into society and widen its influence among groups—especially overseas Chinese—outside of the PRC. […]