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Growth of Christianity in China (view source)
Revision as of 03:08, November 3, 2014
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On November 1, 2014, an article in ''The Economist'' entitled ''Cracks in the atheist edifice'' declared:
{{cquote|Officials are untroubled by the clash between the city’s famously freewheeling capitalism and the Communist Party’s ideology, yet still see religion and its symbols as affronts to the party’s atheism...
Yang Fenggang of Purdue University, in Indiana, says the Christian church in China has grown by an average of 10% a year since 1980. He reckons that on current trends there will be 250m Christians by around 2030, making China’s Christian population the largest in the world. Mr. Yang says this speed of growth is similar to that seen in fourth-century Rome just before the conversion of Constantine, which paved the way for Christianity to become the religion of his empire.<ref>[''Cracks in the atheist edifice''], ''The Economist'', November 1, 2014</ref>}}
On April 19, 2014 ''The Telegraph'' published a story on the growth of [[Christianity]] in [[China]] which declared:
On April 19, 2014 ''The Telegraph'' published a story on the growth of [[Christianity]] in [[China]] which declared:
{{cquote|The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America....
{{cquote|The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America....