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In 2020, ''The Economist'' published an article entitled ''Protestant Christianity is booming in China'' which indicated:
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>}}
{{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>}}
===Desecularization in Afghanistan===
[[File:KabulHasFallen.png|right|350px|thumb|Desecularization in Afghanistan.]]
In 2015, ''The New York Times'' reported that U.S. soldiers were instructed by their commanders to ignore child sexual abuse being carried out by the Afghan National Security Forces. American soldiers were instructed not to intervene—in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records. But the U.S. soldiers were troubled that instead of weeding out [[pedophile]]s, the U.S. military was arming them against the Taliban and placing them as the police commanders of villages—and doing little when they began abusing children.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/opinion/ignoring-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan.html|title=Ignoring Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan|author=The Editorial Board|date=2015-09-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
According to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the DOD had received 5,753 vetting requests of Afghan security forces, some of which related to sexual abuse. The DOD was investigating 75 reports of gross human rights violations,
including 7 involving child sexual assault.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sigar.mil/pdf/inspections/SIGAR%2017-47-IP.pdf|title=Child Sexual Assault in Afghanistan:Implementation of the Leahy Laws and Reports of Assault by Afghan Security Forces|date=June 2017|website=Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction}}</ref> According to ''The New York Times'', discussing that report, American law required military aid to be cut off to the offending unit, but that never happened. [[U.S. Special Operations Forces]] officer, Capt. Dan Quinn, was relieved of his command in Afghanistan after fighting an Afghan militia commander who had been responsible for keeping a boy as a sex slave.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Afghan Pedophiles Get Free Pass From U.S. Military, Report Says
|first=Rod
|last=Nordland
|date=January 23, 2018
|access-date=
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://archive.is/wIjcD#selection-1771.33-1771.48}}</ref>
Since the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and return of the Taliban to power, [[heroin]] production has fallen 95%.<ref>https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231105-poppy-growth-down-95-in-afghanistan-since-taliban-ban-un</ref> Among the Taliban's first actions was to outlaw the practice of [[bachi bazi]] or child sexual abuse again.
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=== Future of atheism in China ===
=== Future of atheism in China ===