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'''Christianity in Asia''' goes right back to the Apostolic and divine foundations of Christianity by [[Jesus Christ]] Our Lord and His holy [[Apostles]]. [[Israel]] being situated in [[Asia]], it was Asia itself that was the first to hear the Word of God. [[Apostle Thomas|St. Thomas]] the Apostle preached and was martyred in India, showing Christianity had already reached the Far East before the end of the First Century A.D. The First Ecumenical Council was the [[Council of Nicaea]] in [[Asia Minor]] in 325 A.D. There is a plan to commemorate the Synod in Nicaea in 2025.<ref>http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bartholomew:-With-Francis,-we-invite-all-Christians-to-celebrate-the-first-synod-of-Nicaea-in-2025-31213.html</ref>
'''Christianity in Asia''' goes right back to the Apostolic and divine foundations of Christianity by [[Jesus Christ]] Our Lord and His holy [[Apostles]]. [[Israel]] being situated in [[Asia]], it was Asia itself that was the first to hear the Word of God. [[Apostle Thomas|St. Thomas]] the Apostle preached and was martyred in India, showing Christianity had already reached the Far East before the end of the First Century A.D. The First Ecumenical Council was the [[Council of Nicaea]] in [[Asia Minor]] in 325 A.D. There is a plan to commemorate the Synod in Nicaea in 2025.<ref>http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bartholomew:-With-Francis,-we-invite-all-Christians-to-celebrate-the-first-synod-of-Nicaea-in-2025-31213.html</ref>
== Growth of Christianity in China ==
'''See also:''' [[Growth of Christianity in China]]
In 2020, ''The Economist'' published an article entitled ''Protestant Christianity is booming in China'' which indicated:
{{Cquote|As for China’s Christians, their numbers continue to grow. The government reckons that about 200m of China’s 1.4bn people are religious. Although most practice traditional Chinese religions such as Taoism, and longer-standing foreign imports such as Buddhism, Protestant Christianity is probably the fastest-growing faith, with at least 38m adherents today (about 3% of the population), up from 22m a decade ago, according to the government’s count. The true number is probably much higher: perhaps as many as 22m more Chinese Protestants worship in unregistered “underground” churches, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame. As China also has 10m-12m Catholics, there are more Christians in China today than in France (38m) or Germany (43m). Combined, Christians and the country’s estimated 23m Muslims may now outnumber the membership of the Communist Party (92m). Indeed, an unknown number of party members go to church as well as local committee meetings.<ref>[https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/09/15/protestant-christianity-is-booming-in-china ''Protestant Christianity is booming in China''], ''The Economist'', Sep 15th 2020</ref>}}
To see the magnitude of the explosive growth of Christianity in China, examine [https://www.dw.com/en/in-xi-we-trust-is-china-cracking-down-on-christianity/a-42224752 this graph about the growth of Christianity in China] in a DW news story about Chinese Christianity (DW is a mainstream news outlet in Germany). There are now more Christians in China than Chinese who belong to the [[Communist Party of China]] (see also: [[East Asia and global desecularization]]).<ref>[https://www.dw.com/en/in-xi-we-trust-is-china-cracking-down-on-christianity/a-42224752 In Xi we trust - Is China cracking down on Christianity?], DW News</ref>
For more information, please see:
*[[Growth of Christianity in China]]
*[[Future of atheism in China]]
==See also==
==See also==