Christianity in China
How much is Christianity prevailing in China now?
Greater China
Aug 7, 2007
Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia
By Spengler
Ten thousand Chinese become Christians each day, according to a stunning report by the National Catholic Reporter's veteran correspondent John Allen, and 200 million Chinese may comprise the world's largest concentration of Christians by mid-century, and the largest missionary force in history...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IH07Ad03.html
Christianity in China
By Lauren Green
Published January 20, 2011
FoxNews.com
According to China Aid, a Texas-based human rights group, the number of Christians in China has increased 100-fold since 1949. Current estimates range from 80 million to 130 million active members. And one startling estimate from a Chinese Christian businessman has that number doubling or even tripling in the next generation.
Christianity could become one of the macro forces shaping Chinese culture, say experts like Dr. David Aikman, author of "Jesus in Beijing"...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/20/christianity-china/#ixzz1xgSpltrm
11 September 2011 Last updated at 23:51 GMT
Christians in China: Is the country in spiritual crisis?
By Tim Gardam
Radio 4's God in China
It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today, but no-one denies the numbers are exploding.
The government says 25 million, 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics. Independent estimates all agree this is a vast underestimate. A conservative figure is 60 million. There are already more Chinese at church on a Sunday than in the whole of Europe...
A Chinese academic close to the government told me that the government would prefer to ignore the house churches, as unlike the Falun Gong they are not seen as a threat. But where a church oversteps the line, as happened in Beijing this year, taking its worship on to the streets, then the authorities will crack down...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14838749
Liao Yiwu
Christianity in China: God Is Red
Posted: 09/14/11 10:04 AM ET
In the Mao era, local Christians were not allowed to pray and attend church, and were forced to accept the Communist ideology. They complied but only a few openly denounced their faith. Some brave Christians gathered secretly for services. As a result, Christianity survived, and a few years after Mao Zedong's death, it came back again with a vengeance....
I live in the cities, where Christianity has also flourished in the post-Mao era but with a distinctive foreign identity. Many new converts, who are educated and well-off professionals or retirees, have embraced Christianity the way they do Coke-Cola or a Volkswagen -- believing that a foreign faith, like foreign-made products, has better quality. Here in the Yi villages, Christianity is now as indigenous as qiaoba, a special Yi buckwheat cake.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liao-yiwu/christianity-china-god-is-red_b_960498.html
Now that China has fully introduced the modern capitalistic market and systems in its industrial sector, how it will introduce democracy and Christianity is of a big concern.
Of course, while Japan is not a Christian country, Japan is a very friendly and peaceful neighbor to the US. So, China does not have to be a Christian country to be a friendly and peaceful neighbor to the US. But sharing the same value standards with the US will make China a less threat to the US and the world.
The point at issue is that Christianity can become a major factor in the Chinese society as a way to take in solving its problems. When poor Chinese people realize that they cannot solve problems and misfortunes by any other means but Christianity, they will follow the teaching of Christ and the God. And it is not so unthinkable, as China once introduced Western philosophy Marxism as its national ideology. So, the largest Asian country China may adopt Christianity as its national religion.
https://tabidachi.ana.co.jp/topic/4398
A Christian Church in Shanghai, China
(to be continued...)
The point at issue is that Christianity can become a major factor in the Chinese society as a way to take in solving its problems. When poor Chinese people realize that they cannot solve problems and misfortunes by any other means but Christianity, they will follow the teaching of Christ and the God. And it is not so unthinkable, as China once introduced Western philosophy Marxism as its national ideology. So, the largest Asian country China may adopt Christianity as its national religion.
A Christian Church in Shanghai, China
(to be continued...)
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Mar 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
Mar 6:13 And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.