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During World War II, China was devastated by the Second Sino-Japanese War which countered a Japanese invasion, and by the Chinese Civil War which resulted in the separation of Taiwan from mainland China. In this period the Chinese Christian churches and organizations had their first experience with autonomy from the Western structures of the ...
The treaties ending the two opium wars opened up China to missionary endeavor and some missionaries believed that the opium wars might be part of God's plan to make China a Christian nation. [40] Later, as the social message of the missionaries began to compete with evangelism as a priority, the missionaries became more forthright in opposing ...
740 – Irish monks reach Iceland [54] 771 – Charlemagne becomes king and will decree that sermons be given in the vernacular. He also commissioned Bible translations. [55] 781 – Xi'an Stele erected near Xi'an (China) to commemorate the propagation in China of the Luminous Religion, thus providing a written record of a Christian presence in ...
Between 600 and 750, Christianity was in retreat in the Near and Middle East and North Africa, while constant war turned the Eastern Roman Empire into the Byzantine Empire. By the ninth and into the twelfth centuries, the Eastern church had spread further east along the Silk Road , into Tibet and China, and along all of the main trade routes of ...
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).
The 1800s witnessed the expansion of Christianity beyond the isolated areas of the Treaty Ports by thousands of new missionaries who entered the interior of China. Western missionaries spread Christianity rapidly through the foreign-occupied coastal cities; the Taiping Rebellion was connected in its origins to the missionary activity.
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The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world. The missionary efforts and other work of the Society of Jesus , or Jesuits, between the 16th and 17th century played a significant role in continuing the transmission of knowledge, science, and culture between China and ...