Local residents burn paper offerings as a ritual for deceased ancestors during the Zhongyuan Festival in Rongan, China. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) How we did this This report aims to explain the ...

Based on formal religious identity, China is the least religious country in the world (among all places where survey data is available). Just one-in-ten Chinese adults self-identify with a religion, ...

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 1934, China’s Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek “observed a schoolboy behaving in an unbecoming manner in the street.” Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to ...