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The Korean-Chinese pastors have a disproportional influence on the underground Christianity in China. Christianity has been an influential religion among the Korean people since the 19th century, and it has become the largest religion in South Korea after the division of Korea in 1945.
Christianity may have existed earlier in China, but the first documented introduction was during the Tang dynasty (618–907) A Christian mission under the leadership of the priest Alopen (described variously as Persian, Syriac, or Nestorian) was known to have arrived in 635, where he and his followers received an Imperial Edict allowing for ...
c. 1100 – Circassia (most of the country would remain pagan in spite of Georgian expansion into the region) 1124 – Conversion of Pomerania; 1160s – Obotrites; c. 1200 – (Southwestern) Finland; 1227 – Livonia (Estonia and Latvia), Cumania (Transylvania) 1241 – Saaremaa; 1260 – Curonians; 1290 – Semigallians
After 700, when much of Christianity was declining in Africa and Asia, there were flourishing Christian societies along all the main trade routes of Asia, in China, Tibet and Mongolia, Central Asia, South India, the Nubian kingdoms, Ethiopia, and in Caucasian Armenia and Georgia [32] [248] The Christian wars of reconquest, begun in Italy in 915 ...
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrata, depicting the Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola adoring the monogram of Christ in Heaven while Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci labor on the China mission "The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Giulio Aleni's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic ...
Christianity and Islam arrived in China during the 7th century. Christianity did not take root until it was reintroduced in the 16th century by Jesuit missionaries. [12] In the early 20th century, Christian communities grew. However, after 1949, foreign missionaries were expelled, and churches brought under government-controlled institutions.
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).