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 ...

Join us for a virtual discussion hosted by the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis featuring Ian ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Silk Roads are passages for transporting and trading goods, but along with the material goods came culture and religion. Buddhism was introduced to China through the Silk Road in the Han ...

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 ...