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 ...

Beijing would like the world to believe that Buddhism has for decades been a leading component of Chinese civilisation and ...

More people in China are taking up religious and devotional practices. As they do, they form local organizations that provide a communal identity at the margins of Party control and influence. Karl ...

The Chinese government banned religion during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. And although Christianity and other religions bounced back in the 1980s and ’90s as restrictions were ...

The recent arrest of the prominent Beijing pastor Ezra Jin and several other “unregistered” church leaders reminds the world—if any reminder were needed—of China’s awful record of religious repression ...

Works to help readers parse the differences between cultural assimilation and political domestication. The word Sinicization usually means assimilation into Chinese culture, particularly the language, ...

Taiwan believes religious centres in rural areas are target Beijing forges close ties with temples of Mazu goddess Taiwan seeks to counter Chinese religious influence work CCP-linked temple says ...

Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year—a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the part ...