
Christian Population Shrinking in China Amid ‘Crackdown’
Between 2010 and 2018 the number of adults identifying as Christian held steady at about 2% and in 2021 fell to 1%.
Between 2010 and 2018 the number of adults identifying as Christian held steady at about 2% and in 2021 fell to 1%.
‘We are in a terrible situation,’ Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, told the Register Jan. 13.
Responding to Cardinal Parolin’s recent comments that appeared to downplay the existence of Christian persecution, Dalù says persecution is actually too gentle of a term for the dire current situation in China.
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