Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday that Chinese authorities are increasing their pressure on 'underground' Catholic communities to join the state-controlled church. The recent ...

Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church ...

Human Rights Watch says China is increasing pressure on 12 million Catholics amid a decade-long campaign to align religion ...

Create Abundance” is not, in any conventional sense, a religion. For that reason, its persecution signals a dangerous ...

President Xi Jinping’s China is becoming a more fearful place. The government has cracked down both on dissent and contact with the West. Religious persecution also is rising: the Communist god that ...

China's religious growth is driven by the rapid development of the country's market economy, says a Purdue University sociologist who studies religions in China. "China's role in the economy and ...

The Rebalance author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. rebalance to Asia. This ...

It’s been a little more than a year now since new regulations on religious affairs went into effect in China in February 2018. Although Chinese people of faith have long faced persecution, last year ...

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2004, file photo, foreign tourists walk past a statue of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucious, at the Confucian Temple in Beijing. China is running five-day Confucian culture ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. Alongside China's astonishing economic boom, an almost unnoticed religious boom has quietly been taking place. In ...

With the takeover of China by the communists under Mao Zedong in 1949, the country became an officially atheist state, and brutal oppression of all religion, including the Catholic Church, followed.

JINAN, China – Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his people's oppression under Mao Zedong. The 39-year-old poet was born after the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when the Hui — China's ...