Now 'made in China' Christian theology - The Times of India: "Christian theology which is practiced in China must be compatible with the country's path of socialism, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, Wang Zuoan, said at a seminar in Shanghai.
"Over the past decades, the Protestant churches in China have developed very quickly with the implementation of the country's religious policy. In the future we will continue to boost the development of Christianity in China," he said.
"The construction of Chinese Christian theology should adapt to China's national condition and integrate with Chinese culture," China Daily quoted Wang saying at the seminar on ' Sinicization of Christianity'. The seminar was part of events organized to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China.
Government approved churches are usually called 'patriotic' churches to distinguish them from underground churches which do not have official approval.
Figures disclosed at the seminars showed that China now has about 23 million to 40 million Protestants, 1.7 to 2.9 percent of the total population. Each year about 500,000 people are baptized as Protestants, the paper said. "
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