Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG BEIJING (AP) — The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao paid no more than three dollars for the trip that would end up costing him his freedom. For years, he and fellow Chinese Christian teachers would cross the river on a narrow bamboo raft from a […]
| 15 April, 2018 Print SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST HONG KONG The Muslim community in Hong Kong has so far amassed about HK$300,000 (US$38,200) in a drive to build a […]
Reports are coming in that the veteran Chinese Muslim Missionary known as Usman Chini has died. He was also for many years Head of the Chinese Desk of the Ahmadiyya […]
Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have torn down “two or three” crosses adorning Christian churches in one county because they were “illegally built”, state media quoted an official as saying on Tuesday. The officially atheist ruling Communist Party has tightened restrictions and oversight of religious practice in China […]
Source: Associated Press By HYUNG-JIN KIM and GERRY SHIH SOUTHERN JILIN PROVINCE, China (AP) — To the North Koreans gathered beneath a crucifix in an apartment in this northeastern Chinese […]
Source: CNN By James Griffiths, CNN A Chinese Catholic deacon holds a bible at the Palm Sunday Mass during Easter Holy Week at an “underground” church on April 9, 2017 near […]
Source: The New York Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS Photo Bishop Joseph Li Shan, center, who was appointed by the Chinese authorities rather than the Vatican, during a Holy Saturday Mass […]
Source: Reuters BY Christian Shepherd, Damir Sagolj YOUTONG VILLAGE, China (Reuters) – Choosing a church can be complicated in China under the rule of the officially atheist Communist Party – especially […]
Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG BEIJING (AP) — Restricting the Vatican’s control over the appointment of bishops in China does not infringe on religious freedom, a Chinese official said […]
Source: Reuters By Greg Torode, Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) – A looming deal between the Vatican and China is causing divisions between the church hierarchy and Catholics in Hong Kong, […]
Source: The New York Times By MARIA ABI-HABIB McLEOD GANJ, India — An original song of thanks to India had been rehearsed, and a stadium in New Delhi had been reserved […]
Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG SAIQI, China (AP) — The twin-spired church in this southern Chinese village was packed with more than a thousand Catholics observing Good Friday, but […]
Source: Reuters BY James Pomfret YINGTAN, China (Reuters) – Like many Chinese Catholics, Lin Jinqing was shocked when news trickled through to him of an impending deal between Beijing and […]
Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – An agreement between China and the Vatican could be signed as soon as the end of this month as talks have reached the final stages, […]
Source: Time By JUSTIN WORLAND March 28, 2018 Just days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the global elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, that China would now take […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Catholic missionary news agency says an underground Chinese bishop who is a key player in a proposed Vatican-China deal over bishop nominations […]
Source: BBC News After days of speculation, it has been confirmed that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un did pay a visit to Beijing. The visit, confirmed by China and North […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — A bishop in China’s underground Catholic Church has reportedly been detained, just as the Vatican has been laying the groundwork […]
Source: CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made his first foreign trip since assuming power in 2011, meeting China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing and discussing giving up the country’s nuclear weapons, according to Chinese state media. Kim, who made the surprise trip to the Chinese capital at […]
Source: BBC News China warned the US it will defend its interests on trade, Chinese state media says, after US President Donald Trump backed tariffs on Chinese goods. The comments […]
