Chinese Catholics Seek Answers to Bishop’s Fate
Following reports of Bishop Cosma Shi Enxiang’s death last week, conflicting accounts of his...
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Catholic Bishop Detained in China has Died
A 94-year-old Chinese bishop who had been detained in China for the past 14 years has reportedly...
Amber Scorah on Leaving the Witness in Shanghai
Missionary work is illegal in China, and the government has recently toughened its response to...
China Broadens Crackdown on Foreign Missionaries
Following the detentions this month of two Canadian Christian activists based by the North Korean...
Daughter of Lucian Pye on the China of Her Mind
The granddaughter of a missionary to China and daughter of the late sinologist Lucian Pye,...
Canonizing Matteo Ricci: A Political Maneuver?
Debra Bruno reports for The Atlantic that some are skeptical of the campaign to turn a founding...
Christian Fundamentalists Targeting Tibetans
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....
Going Undercover, Evangelists Taking Jesus to Tibet
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...
Once Denounced by Mao, Now at Rest in China
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...
Tough Times for Jesus in Xinjiang – Michael Manning
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 […]
Group Says China Deporting Missionaries – Alexa Olesen
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, […]
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