Authorities have taken away at least four members of a high-profile “house church” in Sichuan province as a campaign to root ...

With the takeover of China by the communists under Mao Zedong in 1949, the country became an officially atheist state, and brutal oppression of all religion, including the Catholic Church, followed.

Identify China’s new measures for governing religion. The State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), which succeeded the Religious Affairs Bureau of the State Council, served as the primary ...

The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that the ancient Tibetan Buddhist institution he leads will live on after he dies, putting an end to speculation that he would be the last person to hold the role as he ...

China's religious growth is driven by the rapid development of the country's market economy, says a Purdue University sociologist who studies religions in China. "China's role in the economy and ...

Leaders of Chengdu's Early Rain Covenant Church have been arrested while Wenzhou's Yayang Church is being torn down.

KASHGAR, China (AP) — Tursunjan Mamat, a practicing Muslim in western China’s Xinjiang region, said he's fasting for Ramadan but his daughters, ages 8 and 10, are not. Religious activity including ...

China’s hardline response to protests in Hong Kong this summer are part of a wider policy shift under President Xi Jinping that includes increasing persecution of religious and ethnic minorities. The ...

In recent months, the persecution of religious groups in China has been making headlines. The picture that these news stories create is one of China as a state that actively interferes with religion ...