Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? Identify China’s new measures for governing religion. The State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), which succeeded the Religious ...

The Chinese government banned religion during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. And although Christianity and other religions bounced back in the 1980s and ’90s as restrictions were ...

In 2016, when President Xi Jinping delivered a speech calling for the “Sinicization of religion” in a nation of one billion, he was espousing a century-old impulse among his people while also ...

Buddhism originated around the fifth century B.C.E. in India, but today, more Buddhists live in China than India. Han Buddhism, the dominant branch of Buddhism in China, has blended with local belief ...

China’s officially atheist government is promoting a new textbook on atheism in colleges and among Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres in order to target organized religions and strictly implement ...

The Chinese Communist Party’s national conference on religious affairs headed by President Xi Jinping stressed the strict implementation of Marxist policies, increased online surveillance and ...

Religious citizens in the Henan province of the People's Republic of China must register with the government's new "Smart Religion" app in order to participate in worship services. Religious members ...

Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year—a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the part ...

What the Xi’an stele reveals about the rise and fall of the Nestorian church in the Tang Dynasty. Today, this tradition of Christianity largely exists in the Middle East and is known as the Assyrian ...

Falun Gong emerged in China in 1992, a time of a spiritual renewal in a land still under Communist rule, but one recovering from the horrors of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Drawing on Buddhist ...