Ching Ming is an occasion for Chinese families to honour their dead by burning paper money and objects useful in the afterlife, offering food and wine, and clearing tombs of dust, weeds and debris.

The Chinese Communist Party is intensifying efforts to control Tibetan Buddhism, particularly with the pending succession of ...

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 ...

The Christian community in Tang China managed to survive for as long as the emperors were tolerant of other religions. That changed during the rule of the emperor Wuzong (841-846 CE), who banned all ...

Police showed up at Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, in the early morning on Sept. 1. Some 50 people had gathered to worship in a rented conference room, but by around 9 authorities ...

COMMENTARY: ‘The Vatican’s silence on human rights and religious freedom in China is profoundly disappointing and dangerously ...

President Xi's campaign has the backing of all state-controlled religious organisations. China's government has been going ahead with its religious persecution without impunity. In its latest ...

China Partner's Erik Burklin says there's a difference between the registered and unregistered Church in China ...

A global rights body has called on the pope to champion religious freedom in China while urging the Vatican to secure the release of forcibly disappeared Catholic bishops in the country. The New ...

“The China-Vatican agreement makes no accommodation for the conscientious objectors to the CPCA, who are often called the underground church. Nor does the agreement address religious persecutio ...

MEIZHOU, China (Reuters) - Over a thousand Taiwanese pilgrims flocked to southeast China's Fujian province this week for a religious festival, a rare instance of cross-strait cultural exchanges ...

MEIZHOU, China (Reuters) - Over a thousand Taiwanese pilgrims flocked to southeast China's Fujian province this week for a religious festival, a rare instance of cross-strait cultural exchanges that ...