As religions, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are on the down grade in China. Certain elements that they contain will persist long after the religions themselves have passed.

The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he ...

Since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy in 1980, which reinstated the foundational principle of ...

China is a country with a great diversity of religions, protected by law, with over 100 million followers of various faiths. At more than 85,000 sites around China people worship Buddha, chant ...

China continues to violate the right to freedom of religion, although the worst forms of persecution -- long-term imprisonment and physical abuse of religious activists -- appear to have eased, in ...

Three members of the Taiwanese Yiguandao older than 70 have been detained in China for more than two months and could be imprisoned for up to seven years for religious activity in China. The case not ...

TAIPEI--Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uighurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist ...

In China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, mosques, places of Islamic worship, are being demolished one after another and turned into vacant lots. Such disturbing scenes are spreading across ...

Officially China is an atheist society where religion is not seen as compatible with communism. Nevertheless, China is a country with a huge diversity of religious beliefs. Figures vary widely and ...

Francis says China has ‘a capacity for dialogue and understanding that goes beyond other systems of democracy’ and says he wants to visit.