every second they print Angela. And with every new sunrise, they baptize.
dozens of people. And every week they build a secret church. Put
and Britain aside. And look well at China. Christian force coming
From the east from the west. The country that persecuted, tortured, prevented and imprisoned all of its
in relation to different religions. Take a good look at the country
who would lead Christianity in the near future. Watch this world once
, but with a different eye. Because it may carry the most famous Christian symbols.
, either China itself manufactures everything from needles to
missiles to the world. It is also the largest producer of Bibles around the world. Ten decades ago
Christianity was a forbidden religion like other religions. The dominant religion was
is a Marxist ideology with a mixture of Chinese Maoism. Organizations
, they were seen as one of the most dangerous threats to
the Communist Party. What happened to the people there? Even embraced
, and they favored it over the rest of the religions. In the year two thousand and four
, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published a report that once again disturbed the pillars of power
. The report says that the number of Christians in China will exceed Robert
two hundred and forty-seven million by the year two thousand and thirty. And since
in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty and to this day are increasing numbers
Christian Protestants only. at a rate of ten percent annually. What will make the
China is the largest forum for Christians in the world, overtaking Brazil
and America. At the present time, no one has been able to know the number of Christians
the real America in China. This is for two reasons, namely, the scarcity of information about society
Chinese. Christianity spread secretly, far from the eyes of the authorities. But
. It remains to know the answer to the most important question. How did you enter China? And how
And why, for example, did
converting to Islam or Buddhism? We will answer many questions for you in this
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early Christian waves began to reach China with the arrival of the missionary
Italian Jesuit participation, Matteo Ricci, in the late sixteenth century. And it was he
Morrison , the first Protestant missionary to arrive in China, in
thousand eight hundred and seven. On behalf of the London Missionary Society. The Chinese did
by translating the Bible into the Mandarim language. But the Chinese did
they accept the new religion. This is because Christianity at that time was linked in the minds of
the Chinese people to Western imperialism. Then he was watching
The Chinese, Western missionaries, coming to them on ships carrying
Opium and the Bible side by side. to take him to their lands. This scene
It was enough to make the Chinese move away from the Christian
religion for a year . In the middle of the nineteenth century the situation changed little.
Christianity into a political force to mobilize the people against the Chang Dynasty. To dominate
these are on more than a third of Chinese territory. Then they established a
rival political system known as the Celestial Kingdom. Later, the Christian war broke out
the civil society kill more than twenty million people? To witness in the year of a thousand
nine hundred and forty-nine. Birth of the People's Republic of China. Which
religious repression on a large scale. In line with Marxist concepts.
has put Maoist thought, which is the Chinese version of Marxism, the future of
the Chinese revolution by the rural peasants. It is the ideology that
dominated China at the time in the seventies of the last century. At the height of
the Cultural Revolution. The clampdown on the Chinese people increased. It demolished places
worship was closed and religious was banned. After the death of his successor in power, which
reviving China's relations with the outside world and doing a sentence that
repairs. Including granting greater freedoms to Chinese citizens. Here
, Christianity began to grow. Why Christianity and not Islam? After decades
economic growth, modern China emerged as a richer society
and education. With a renewed interest in religion. In a society that was imposed on it by
one ideology, which is the creed of the Chinese Communist Party. But this creed
began to lose its luster with time. Because they were associated with religious politicians
rulers. Christian churches began to fill the void left by the party.
and caused the harsh suppression of the most popular traditional Chinese religions.
Especially during the Cultural Revolution in reducing the influence of Buddhism and Taoism.
opened the door to greater Christian expansion. The Chinese also preferred to
Christianity is above other religions such as Buddhism or Islam, because
the new Christian teachings are easy to apply. And because Christianity is also
that was safer for them than Islam. Especially since it has been linked to progress in a
European societies. But Christianity practice in not
Christianity that you know. In China, everything must be subject to
laws. And it must be modified even if it is sacred.
Christian communism. At a time when the government practiced tolerance
Limited with dogmatic practices Religious freedom in China remains
restricted and organized manner. Christians faced increasing repression at
And the past years have turned . China ranked tenth as the country with the most
the risk of practicing Christianity. Christians were held captive and prevented from
enter places of worship. And in conjunction with the dissolution of religious gatherings of the
and demolished churches. That not with the beliefs of the Communist Party. In
Chinese, and the Communist Party recognizes five religions. It is a different Buddhism
Catholicism, Protestantism, Taoism and Islam. It is a
all religious activities related to these religions by the state. Including
the choice of clergy and interpretation of the creed. And to register as a Christian organization
to state sanction. The clergy must be trained to adapt themselves to the
the government's doctrine and the impoverishment of the Chinese Communist Party.
state-sanctioned organization grafted with the principles of communism. People resorted to building
have their own churches underground, away from the eyes of the authorities. Where these
gatherings operate outside the guidelines of the government. According to the figures of the year two thousand
. There are between ninety-three hundred and fifteen million
Protestant in China. Less than thirty million of them frequent
the officially registered churches? As for the Catholics in China, their number reached
to more than twelve million. However, there was no authority
of the Vatican on Christians in China. In the year one thousand nine hundred
and fifty-one, Mao broke off his relationship with the Vatican for good. And in the year two thousand
And because the fourteen churches and Pope Francis to revive relations to communicate with
Chinese Christians. But the crisis aggravated between him and China after
dispute over the eligibility of who has the power to appoint bishops. It is the authority to be
usually in the hands of the Pope. But China wants to appoint bishops from its own
they were imbued with the communist faith alongside Christianity. In the year two thousand
eighteen, the parties reached a temporary agreement in which the Vatican agreed to
Candidates endorsed by Beijing. But this agreement met sixteen reactions
among the Chinese Christians who saw that the Vatican was subject
the Chinese authority. In your opinion, will the Christians in China succeed in leading
country in the future? Or that their large numbers will not be influential.
Tell us your opinion in the comments?