Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year—a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the ...

The Tibetan Buddhist leader, who turns 90 on Sunday, appears concerned that Beijing will sweep in after his death to install ...

Based on formal religious identity, China is the least religious country in the world - with just 10% of Chinese adults self-identifying with a religion.

China regularly ranks among the worst-performing countries on freedom of religion. That makes sense, given the crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs and the the destruction of Christian churches.

The dynamics of the global stage are shifting amid Donald Trump's changes to America's role in the world.

A month ago China's Bishop Chen Wenyuan, steaming across the Pacific on a U.S. hospital transport, was thrilled when the ship sighted two Japanese submarines. This week in Manhattan U.S.

With the takeover of China by the communists under Mao Zedong in 1949, the country became an officially atheist state, and brutal oppression of all religion, including the Catholic Church ...

Kalamazoo, Mich.—Western Michigan University Libraries is thrilled to announce the publication of two open textbooks by Western faculty funded by Open Educational Resources Creation Grants. Western ...

Newsweek has looked at the potential fallout of the U.S. using the largest nuclear weapon in its arsenal, the B-83, on capitals in North Korea, Russia and China.

China’s Chairman Xi is taking unprecedented control over religion as part of his powergrab. The party’s Bible rewrite has Jesus turn killer instead of forgiving sin.

A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese.

Fenggang Yang, a Purdue professor of sociology and director of the university's Center on Religion and Chinese Society, has been elected the 2014-15 president of the Society for the Scientific Study ...