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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 […]
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Faith Under Party Rule
The Sinicization of Religion in China
[…] SARA and the National Religious Affairs Administration (NRAA). State Administration for Religious Affairs åÂÂ家å®ÂæÂÂäºÂåÂÂå±Â, ãÂÂè´天主æÂÂãÂÂåºç£æÂÂçÂÂçÂÂèÂÂèªÂè³Âä¿¡ãÂÂ, <em>Catholic Church in China</em>, December 23, 2024, accessed Feburary 5, 2025, https://www.chinacatholic.cn/ccic/report/2412/0370- 1.htm.The message is basically the same as in every greeting given during the recent past at Christmastime. Xi Jinping Speech to United Front Work Conference on Religious […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] way to grasp how the religious affairs bureaucracy works is to view it historically, which is especially useful as the structure today is a holdover from the 1950s. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, it organized all non-communists who wished to cooperateor collaborateinto a “united front,” by which allies could be […]
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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A New China and a New Catholic Church
[…] J. F. Lonergan, “The Transition from A Classicist World-View to Historical-Mindedness” in <em>A Second Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, S.J.</em> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974), 1–10. Second Vatican Council, “Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, <em>Gaudium et Spes, </em>December 7, 1965,” Preface, section 1, Vatican website, accessed October 5, […]
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?
[…] loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and comparatively weaker emphasis on traditional Christian ideas. Five-year TSPM/CCC plans are not new. In fact, since its formation in the 1950s, the TSPM—like all other societal organizations under Chinese Communist Party (or CCP) leadership—was required to formulate plans in step with the five-year plans of the CCP. […]
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Understanding the Chinese Church
The Resurrection of the Chinese Church by Tony Lambert. Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. Revised edition: Harold Shaw Publishers/OMF, 1994, 353 pp. ISBN 0-87788-728-4, paperback. Cost: $9.99 at Amazon. At any gathering of pastors discussing the spiritual situation in China, the same questions appear with regularity: What is happening in the house church in China? […]
“I Always Knew He Was There”
Discovering Faith Across Cultures
[…] became not only my wife, but my teacher as well. She showed me how to love people better. My wife’s parents arrived in Taiwan by boat in 1955. For over 35 years they served alongside Chinese brothers and sisters—planting churches, making disciples, and loving people. They loved their life and ministry. Their daughter, my […]