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(Note: China Institute does not necessarily completely agree with everything said and done by the organizations listed below, but we do believe that they are valuable resources for those who seek to serve the Chinese.)

• Sons of Heaven ~ 17 Oct 2008

  Inside China’s fastest-growing non-governmental organization.

• Let the God Games Begin ~ 9 Aug 2008

  How missionaries' attempts to evangelize at the Olympics were foiled.
  

• Whither China? ~ 4 Aug 2008

  The world's eyes will be on Beijing, and neither China nor the rest of the world will be the same again. Or that ostensibly is the hope of China's leaders and the aspiration of its people.

• Christianity Fever ~ 16 Jul 2008

  Through a century of political turmoil and disillusionment, waves of Chinese intellectuals have come to Christ.

• Jesus in China: Christianity's rapid rise ~ 26 Jun 2008

  The rise of Christianity is reshaping the officially atheist nation, its politics and the way many Chinese view the world. The Tribune's Evan Osnos reports from Beijing and the countryside.

• Religion in China on the Eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics ~ 12 May 2008

  the Summer Olympics could be the first international forum where the growing presence and ambitions of religious groups in China are exposed to a watching world.

• Rudd rewrites the rules of engagement ~ 22 Apr 2008

  By introducing the term "zhengyou" with all of its liberating connotations into our dealings with China, Kevin Rudd has achieved something of considerable significance.

• China: Authorities Targeted Church Leaders in '07 Crackdown ~ 8 Feb 2008

  China Aid’s annual report challenges claims of religious freedom.

• A Church in China ~ 1 Feb 2008

  “The Christian movement in China has now become an urban movement,” explains Wang Dong. “We believe that Beijing will provide the model for urban churches in the rest of China and we hope our church becomes the model for Beijing.”

• China's Leader Puts Faith in Religious ~ 22 Jan 2008

  There was Hu Jintao, head of the Chinese Communist Party, warmly shaking hands at a party-sponsored New Year's tea party with one of the country's main Christian leaders.

• China's New Bestseller: The Bible ~ 12 Jan 2008

  As the book business goes, Amity Printing is not unusually prolific. In the last 20 years it has printed some 50 million books; some publishers churn out that many in a year. But Amity focuses on one title — the Bible — and primarily one market, China.

• Field Museum's Chinese scroll of Madonna and Child shows Christianity's spread ~ 6 Jan 2008

  As a pair of conservators at the Field Museum slowly unrolled an ancient Chinese scroll, it dramatically revealed how far the Christian faith has traveled since that first Christmas in Bethlehem.

• Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia ~ 9 Aug 2007

  Ten thousand Chinese become Christians each day, according to a stunning report by the National Catholic Reporter's veteran correspondent John Allen, and 200 million Chinese may comprise the world's largest concentration of Christians by mid-century, and the largest missionary force in history.

• Christianity sparks China's new cultural revolution ~ 18 Jul 2007

  Christianity in China has come a long way since 1870. That was the year that violent Chinese mobs in the city of Tianjin, enraged by rumors that French missionaries were kidnapping babies, massacred every Christian they could get their hands on. In those days, China's citizenry saw Christianity as a tentacle of Western imperialism, and as such viewed it as a threat to their country's very existence.

• God vs. Country ~ 17 Jul 2007

  When Chinese scholars arrive at Cal, Christian ministers help them get settled. But church involvement may set the visitors up for trouble back home.

• Group Says China Deporting Missionaries ~ 10 Jul 2007

  China has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year's Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday.

• From Torture to Plaintiff: a Pilgrim's Progress in China ~ 30 May 2007

  Every evening in a little village near this coastal city, peasants gather in a private home and do something that used to be dangerous. They pray.

• Taiwan or China? ~ 16 Apr 2007

  When thinking about ministry to Chinese people we immediately consider the needs of Mainland China. However, Taiwan is also a Chinese society of over 23 million people. Read on to see why maybe you should consider ministry to Chinese people in Taiwan.

• China's rising number of young Christians gear up for Easter ~ 7 Apr 2007

  Chinese Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter amid a nationwide religious renaissance led by an army of young people seeking faith in the modern world, religious leaders and academics said.

• Every Tribe and Class ~ 21 Mar 2007

  If these missionaries have their way, millions of Taiwanese will no longer be too embarrassed or intimidated to go to church.

• Nicholas Kristof: Keeping Faith in China ~ 15 Feb 2007

  During the first half of the 20th century, Western missionaries swarmed all over China, yet they converted fewer than a million Chinese and left only a minor imprint on the country.