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The members of the underground Catholic Church in China, those who do not belong to the official Catholic Patriotic Church and are faithful to the Vatican, remain theoretically subject to persecution today. In practice, however, the Vatican and the Chinese State have been, at least unofficially, accommodating each other for some time.
In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gained control of mainland China and established the People's Republic of China (PRC). Shortly thereafter, well-known Christian leader Y. T. Wu authored and published "The Christian Manifesto", which publicly supported the CCP's policy of overseeing the church for the sake of national unity and progress and called on all Protestant Christians to ...
The Catholic Church (Chinese: 天主教; pinyin: Tiānzhǔ jiào; lit. 'Religion of the Lord of Heaven', after the Chinese term for the Christian God) first appeared in China upon the arrival of John of Montecorvino in China proper during the Yuan dynasty; he was the first Catholic missionary in the country, and would become the first bishop of Khanbaliq (1271–1368).
China’s Hebei province hosts a Catholic church sanctioned by Chinese authorities, two large “underground” churches, and numerous smaller house churches. Practicing Catholicism in Communist China
St John's Church, [a] today known as Shangxiang Christian Church, [b] is a Protestant church situated on Shangxiang Street in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Founded in 1909, the church had been the seat of the Anglican Bishop of West Szechwan , practically making it the cathedral of this bishopric . [ 1 ]
Christianity is said to have entered China by the apostle Thomas around the year 68 AD, as part of his mission to India. [3] [4] [5] There is also speculative evidence to suggest the missionary of a few Church of the East Assyrian Christians during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220AD).
The church again opened to worship on May 27, 1984, after Deng Xiaoping returned to politics. [ 3 ] In 1998, the Shenzhen government provided a 4,400 m 2 (0.0017 sq mi) land in Meilin Huaguo Hill ( 梅林花果山 ) of Futian District (including green belt) for the new church of construction land.
The church is part of the official Protestant Church of China, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Sunday church services take place mainly in Lisu. Of the 18,000 Lisu who lived in Fugong in 1950 – 3,400 adhered to the Christian faith. As of 2007, it was estimated that 80–90 percent of the 70,000 professed the Christian faith. [7]