Christianity and China—Two Recent Articles

October 25, 2008


Here are excerpts from two recent articles about the growth of the Christian movement in China:

Christianity Fever

As the Chinese search for a new social philosophy in this new century, China’s resurrected church brings hope for the future. Public opinion about Christianity has turned from negative to positive. Believers report, “Many people, including high government officials, have the opinion that Christians have an important role in dealing with matters such as family, marriage, interpersonal relationships, drug abuse, and alcoholism.”

Sons of Heaven 

ZHAO XIAO, a former Communist Party official and convert to Christianity, smiles over a cup of tea and says he thinks there are up to 130m Christians in China. This is far larger than previous estimates.

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If so, it would mean China contains more Christians than Communists (party membership is 74m) and there may be more active Christians in China than in any other country. In 1949, when the Communists took power, less than 1% of the population had been baptised, most of them Catholics. Now the largest, fastest-growing number of Christians belong to Protestant “house churches”.

Because of all that God is doing in China, we continue to work toward the establishment of Keep Believing China.

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