Chinese Catholics Seek Answers to Bishop’s Fate
Following reports of Bishop Cosma Shi Enxiang’s death last week, conflicting accounts of his...
Feb 13, 2015
Following reports of Bishop Cosma Shi Enxiang’s death last week, conflicting accounts of his...
Feb 6, 2015
A 94-year-old Chinese bishop who had been detained in China for the past 14 years has reportedly...
Dec 17, 2014
Missionary work is illegal in China, and the government has recently toughened its response to...
Aug 25, 2014
Following the detentions this month of two Canadian Christian activists based by the North Korean...
Dec 30, 2013
The granddaughter of a missionary to China and daughter of the late sinologist Lucian Pye,...
Nov 16, 2013
Debra Bruno reports for The Atlantic that some are skeptical of the campaign to turn a founding...
Mar 8, 2013
While some Christian missionaries in China aim to fill spaces left by the suppression of traditional values and decline of Maoism, others work to convert members of already beleaguered minority cultures such as Tibetan Buddhism....
Feb 22, 2013
At The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman examines the activities of Christian missionaries in Tibet. These have prompted widespread distrust among the overwhelmingly Buddhist population, but appear to be tacitly accepted by the...
Nov 19, 2008
John Leighton Stuart was an American born in China to missionary parents, and was the last U.S. ambassador to the country before ties were cut off in 1949. Forty-six years after his death, his wish to be buried in China has...
Oct 12, 2007
The Opposite End of China offers a tough, if slightly flippant, read on yesterday’s report that the Chinese government recently shut down two Christian-run businesses in Xinjiang on grounds they were fronts for missionary work. The post focuses on the fate of the Xinjiang Pacific Agricultural Resources Development Company, one of the targeted firms: Of […]
Jul 10, 2007
From AP via Washington Post: China has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year’s Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday. The government launched “a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians” in February dubbed Typhoon No. 5, said the China Aid Association, […]