WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – While issues of China's trade and human rights policies dominate the headlines, a Purdue University professor says a dramatic growth in religious activity in the country also ...

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 ...

WEIZHOU, China – A newspaper of the ruling Communist Party said Saturday that no religion is above the law in China, urging officials to stay firm while dealing with a rare protest over the planned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2004, file photo, foreign tourists walk past a statue of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucious, at the ...

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.

What is the role of religion in China from the perspectives of the Chinese government and communities of faith? The official position of the Chinese Communist Party-State on religion is based on ...

China’s hardline response to protests in Hong Kong this summer are part of a wider policy shift under President Xi Jinping that includes increasing persecution of religious and ethnic minorities. The ...

(The Conversation) — The game allows players to free Sun Wukong, the monkey protagonist from the popular 16th century novel ‘Journey to the West,’ and introduces players to the complexity of Chinese ...