Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the need for religions in China to adapt to the socialist society, promoting the ...

Local residents burn paper offerings as a ritual for deceased ancestors during the Zhongyuan Festival in Rongan, China. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) How we did this This report aims to explain the ...

Fenggang Yang, professor of sociology and director of the Center on Religion and the Global East, presented “The Social Significance of Religion: From China to the Global East” at the Westwood Lecture ...

The bishop of Shanghai defended the Chinese government’s religious freedom record at a Vatican conference on Tuesday in a speech that called for the Church in China to “follow a path of ‘sinicization.

From 2070BC to 256BC, the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties paved the way for Chinese society with Taoism, written language, ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is officially atheist, and its members are not permitted to join any religion. The party’s attitude aligns with the Marxist view that religion is a temporary ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. China regularly ranks among the worst-performing countries on freedom of religion. That makes sense, given the crackdown on ...

In a move set to tighten government control over practicing religion in China's western Xinjiang Province, the Muslim-majority region will introduce a set of regulations that -- among other things -- ...

Christianity in China has stopped growing since 2010, according to an academic paper. "In 19 nationally representative surveys conducted since the early 2000s, the authors find no clear evidence that ...

In 2022, China banned all online religious services without official licenses. Beijing faces regular international criticism ...

A senior leader of the state-sanctioned Catholic Church in China has called on Catholics to support and advance the communist government’s controversial ‘sinicization of religion’ policy, says a ...

(New York) – The Chinese government’s revised regulations in the Xinjiang region tighten controls over the religious practices of the predominantly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs, Human Rights Watch said today ...