The Gospel and Beijing
...large number (including Kublai Khan's mother) were professing Christians. Furthermore, in 1294 the Catholic Church sent John of Montecorvino to the capital where he spent thirty-four years as a missionary,...
...large number (including Kublai Khan's mother) were professing Christians. Furthermore, in 1294 the Catholic Church sent John of Montecorvino to the capital where he spent thirty-four years as a missionary,...
...the region.HEALTH HIV/AIDS cases in Yunnan exceeds 100,000 (November 27, 2012, Xinhua)Southwest China’s Yunnan Province has logged more than 100,000 cases of HIV/AIDS since it began taking records of the...
...from the 970,000 who sat for the exam in 2011, as is the number of positions available, slightly up from last year’s 18,000 slots. AFP reports that the number of...
...Research Institute. The number of rural primary schools decreased by 52 percent from 2000 to 2010 while the number of countryside pupils dropped by 37.8 percent, the report said. The...
...incidences do occur, a much larger number of Christians engages seemingly unhindered in a wide variety of activities on a daily basis. Where, then, is the tipping point? Why are...
...that over the past 20 years, the number of obese Chinese men has grown from 3 percent to 11 percent, while the number of obese women has increased from 5...
...Siberian Russia (my work sometimes takes me beyond China north to Russia and Mongolia). According to what readers back in The West are already saying about the book, it is...
...in Chinese will thrive through the ultimate conquest of language barriers, just as translations of the Book have done throughout the world. Location Beijing is a metropolis of over 20...
...Weibo.SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY / ENVIRONMENTChinas Newest Stealth Fighter Takes Flight (October 31, 2012, Wired)Chinas newest stealth fighter prototype reportedly took off on its first test flight over the Shenyang Aircraft...
...number of college hopefuls taking the national university entrance exam, or gaokao, has dropped. Analysts trace the decline to a corresponding drop in the number of children born at the...
For the fourth straight year in row, the number of college hopefuls taking the national university entrance exam, or gaokao, has dropped. Analysts trace the decline to a corresponding drop...
...China Southern Airlines flight CZ680 had originally taken off from Istanbul in Turkey and landed in Xinjiang’s provincial capital, Urumqi. It was en route for Beijing when the alert happened...