“This is not,” he continues, “the China we used to know.” [ad number=“1”] No, it is not. Once officially atheist, China has roared with growth since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.

China, by contrast, has more religious diversity. The Communist Party feels more comfortable with the traditional religions of Buddhism and Taoism, and less comfortable with Christianity and Islam.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When people think about religion in China, they tend to think first about Buddhism. “But that is not the case in many places in China, not anymore,” said Fengang Yang, author of ...

Pew researchers report that six of the world’s 12 nations with a “very high degree” of religious diversity can be found in the Asia-Pacific region—Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea ...

In China, belief in gods and other religious figures is more common than formal religious identity. For example, according to the 2016 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) survey, 18% of Chinese adults ...

As the CCP continues its abuses of Uyghurs, Tibetans, and others, the U.S. must continue to lead in upholding religious freedom.

While China’s religious citizens struggle to focus on leading moral lives, after 100 years the CCP’s only goals remain domination, control, self-perpetuation, and self-aggrandizement.

The highest echelon of Chinese government officials attended a national conference on religious work held in Beijing on April 22-23. A workshop on cyber security and information technology had ...

When Ian Johnson first went to China as a student three decades ago, he pronounced religion there “dead.” But Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist now based in Berlin and ...

On the matter of religion in China, Beijing has made one thing perfectly clear: No religious group lies beyond the grasp of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).