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Revision as of 15:27, September 29, 2014
On April 14, 2019 The Telegraph published a story on the growth of Christianity in China which declared:
“ | The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America....
Officially, the People's Republic of China is an atheist country but that is changing fast as many of its 1.3 billion citizens seek meaning and spiritual comfort that neither communism nor capitalism seem to have supplied. Christian congregations in particular have skyrocketed since churches began reopening when Chairman Mao's death in 1976 signalled the end of the Cultural Revolution. Less than four decades later, some believe China is now poised to become not just the world's number one economy but also its most numerous Christian nation.... China's Protestant community, which had just one million members in 1949, has already overtaken those of countries more commonly associated with an evangelical boom. In 2010 there were more than 58 million Protestants in China compared to 40 million in Brazil and 36 million in South Africa, according to the Pew Research Centre's Forum on Religion and Public Life. Prof Yang, a leading expert on religion in China, believes that number will swell to around 160 million by 2025. That would likely put China ahead even of the United States, which had around 159 million Protestants in 2010 but whose congregations are in decline. By 2030, China's total Christian population, including Catholics, would exceed 247 million, placing it above Mexico, Brazil and the United States as the largest Christian congregation in the world, he predicted. "Mao thought he could eliminate religion. He thought he had accomplished this," Prof Yang said. "It's ironic – they didn't. They actually failed completely."[1] |
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See also
External links
- Panel Looks at Christianity's Rapid Growth in China Despite Persecution - Christian Post, June 4, 2014
- China’s Exploding Christian Population Still Facing Persecution, National Review, April 22, 2014
- Significant Growth in Numbers of Chinese Christians, Gospel Herald, September 13, 2013
Videos:
- China Chafes at Christianity's Growth - The New York Times, June 1, 2014
- In China, Christianity Growing Fast - Voice of America, September. 12, 2014
- Experience the Underground Churches of Chinese Christians- Bread for China, April 22, 2014