Results for: cheap%20airline%20tickets%20to%20jacksonville%20florida%20military%20phone%20number%201-800-299-7264

Supporting Article

Hope for HIV/AIDS in China

[…] including China, are now home to some of the fastest growing AIDS epidemics in the world. UNAIDS projects that China may have ten million people infected by 2010 (or one percent of the population). Dr. Eberstadt of Harvard University’s Center for Population Studies predicts that five percent of China’s people will be infected in […]

Blog Entries

Home Is the Bridge to Our Hearts

Home and family are very vital topics to a Chinese person, often providing bridges to their heart’s desires and offering a way to present Christ as the way to give a perfect home and family—the home and family found in knowing him.

Supporting Article

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.

Blog Entries

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?

[…] plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? In this analysis, I compared the 2023–2027 plan1 with the previous plan2 for 2018–2022 to see what’s new and what is the same. The most important conclusion is that the TSPM/CCC now lays far greater emphasis on political loyalty to […]

Blog Entries

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.5 Students of Chinese politics and […]

Editorials

A Look Back to Look Forward

A Decade of ChinaSource

[…] an update on China’s growing urban church that is taking a variety of forms. In addition, we introduce you to the new ChinaSource website and recommend the 2010 Prayer Calendar. Throughout the years, ChinaSource has provided a variety of resources designed to aid and enhance your China service. As one of those resources, the […]

Blog Entries

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 […]

ZGBriefs

ZGBriefs | June 15, 2023

Marriages in China drop to record low despite government push (June 13, 2023, The Guardian) The number of marriages in China last year dropped to 6.83 million, the lowest since records began in 1986. Data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed the number of couples tying the knot in 2022 fell by […]

ZGBriefs

ZGBriefs | August 27, 2020

[…] 1950s, the iconic green trains are a relic of another age, differing in almost every way from the sleek high-speed rail cars replacing them. Tickets are dirt- cheap. The carriages are crowded, chaotic, and stifling in the summer heat. It can take hours for the lumbering locomotives to chug between cities. Sponsored Link Webinar: […]

Lead Article

Telecommunications and the Internet in China

<p>Among developing countries, China is number one in the pace at which telecommunication services and the Internet are being developed. These developments will contribute enormously to China’s modernization and integration into the global economy and may have significant domestic social and political impact. </p>