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Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
What can we learn from the recent conference on religious work? A comparison with the 2018 conference helps tease out key points.
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] official groups) as designed for “unity and patriotism” and to act as a “bridge and bond for the CCP and people’s government to unite…with the clergy and common believers.”3 But, as we’ll see below, the new regulations take this to a new level. A Word on “Law”: Chinese Communist Party Regulation Is Not Western […]
Skills No Longer Needed
[…] similar items. Not such a useful skill in Australia; I have the vocabulary for most things here. Slowly developing the ability to discern if the new African face at the international church is more like the West Africans I know, the East Africans, or could be from the south. Realizing that when I see […]
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] go something like this: Chinese mom out playing with her young son: How old is your daughter? It’s vital to know this, by the way. The most common/polite way for the son to greet my daughter is to either call her jie jie (‘older sister’) or mei mei (‘younger sister’), so if the children […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
One way to understand the workings of the religious affairs bureaucracy is to follow the story of an aspiring pastor as he goes from being a lay person, to a seminary student, to serving as a pastor. After approaching an official church pastor, he is encouraged to apply for the entrance exam that decides whether […]
Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
The winter 2022 issue of <em>ChinaSource Quarterly</em> offers perspectives like a plane dropping from thirty thousand feet to ground level, as they shift from high-level and mildly optimistic…to close up, personal, and much more pessimistic. Together, they offer helpful insight on what’s happening in China after ten years of…political leadership by Xi Jinping.
Reverse Culture Shock
[…] (ironically it’s easy to fit right in on this one due to reverse culture shock). Wealthy Australians posting their incredible and expensive, but unwanted, Christmas gifts on Facebook Marketplace. The way hardly any languages are taught at primary school level—and that the level is so minimal. How is Australia going to engage meaningfully with […]
Editorials
A Look Back to Look Forward
A Decade of ChinaSource
[…] an update on China’s growing urban church that is taking a variety of forms. In addition, we introduce you to the new ChinaSource website and recommend the 2010 Prayer Calendar. Throughout the years, ChinaSource has provided a variety of resources designed to aid and enhance your China service. As one of those resources, the […]
Religious Policy Development in the PRC since 1949–An Overview
[…] or State Association for Religious Affairs (SARA) as the name was changed to in 1998, defines and regulates the activities of all "normal" religious bodies in China. 1 Under the SARA, the China Christian Council (CCC) functions as a regulatory organization over the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), whereas the TSPM structures and regulates […]
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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
<p>The effect of HIV/AIDS is increasing and is expected to affect 5% of the Chinese population in the next 20 years. What is being done to address the medical issues and the social stigma of this devastating disease? What have Christians dealing with HIV/AIDS in Africa learned that can be applied to the situation […]