After a photo of memorial tablets for Japanese war criminals in Nanjing’s Xuanzang Temple went viral, China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs ordered religious groups across the country to conduct self-inspections and...
Hong Kong national security police arrested Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun on Wednesday for alleged conspiracy to collude with foreign powers. Cardinal Zen is a 90-year-old former bishop and senior figure in Hong Kong’s democracy...
As a campaign of mass internment of Uyghurs in northwest China seemingly begins to transition into a new stage involving forced labor and population transfers, details of the detainees’ experiences continue to emerge. In...
Under Xi Jinping, China has launched aggressive religious “sinicization” campaigns that have affected the constitutionally protected freedom to religious belief of many in China. Members of China’s ethnic minority groups...
New draft rules from the Ministry of Justice, translated by China Law Translate, aim to further limit foreign participation and influence in Chinese religious life. Foreign adherents of religious groups not under the umbrella of...
A campaign of repression against Islam is underway in Muslim-majority areas across China. While the construction of mass internment camps seemingly remains unique to Xinjiang, two new reports by The Los Angeles Times and...
The Vatican has decided to extend a secret 2018 agreement with Beijing that governs the appointment of bishops in China. The 2018 Sino-Vatican deal, signed in the midst of crackdowns on religious expression, is believed to give...
Pastor Wang Yi, the founder of the underground Early Rain Covenant Church and staunch critic of Xi Jinping’s heavy-handed policies, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for “subversion of state power” and...
Religious controls have tightened considerably under the Xi administration. A deepening religious...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
As part of the Chinese government’s national campaign to “Sinicize” religion, authorities...
The Vatican signed a landmark agreement with China on Saturday on the process for appointing...
In an update to disciplinary regulations that apply to all Chinese Communist Party members,...
In an interview with Himal Southasian, University of British Columbia historian Tsering Shakya...
Amid a renewed domestic interest in Buddhism, sacred Chinese Buddhist sites have in recent years...
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson reports that Beijing has closed a loophole that allowed online...
Earlier this week AsiaNews.it, a news site run by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions,...
Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, a sacred Tibetan Buddhist site dating back in parts to the seventh...
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