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For example, Gerda Wielander (2013) has claimed that estimates of the number of Christians in China that have been spread by Western media may have been highly inflated. [5] For instance, according to Asia Harvest, a US non-profit organization and "inter-denominational Christian ministry", there were 105 millions Christians in China in 2011.
In 1963, the Yunnan Provincial Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee was established and located in Trinity Church. Since then, the church has also been the headquarter of the Yunnan branch of the China Christian Council. [4] During the Cultural Revolution, the church was closed. In December 1984, the Trinity Church resumed worship.
The independent churches established during the republican era are the most well known and representative of the many independent churches in China. Today, many of them constitute a significant portion of what is generally termed the house church movement in China, because after 1949, with the arrival of Communist control and departure of all ...
From 2020–21, estimates of the number of Christians in China ranged from 5.1 to 7.4% of the population. [15] In reports of countries with the strongest anti-Christian persecution, China was ranked by the Open Doors organization in 2019 as the 27th most severe country [27] [28] and in 2023 as 16th most severe. [29]
In the spring of 1979, Chinese churches resumed worship after the Cultural Revolution.In order to revive the church, the China Christian Council was founded at the third national Christian conference in 1980, to unite and provide services for churches in China, formulating Church Order and encouraging theological education.
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).
Christianity is a minority faith in Shanghai, a municipality in China. Shanghai has the highest proportion of Catholic residents of any province-level division in mainland China (2003). [ 1 ] [ unreliable source ] The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai has churches including St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai and She Shan Basilica .
Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelization or CCCOWE (Chinese: 世界華人福音運動; pinyin: Shìjiè Huárén Fúyīn Yùndòng) is an international organization of Overseas Chinese Christian churches that was founded on 1976. CCCOWE has branches throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia.