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2024, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China 
October 13 – December 4, 2023 PDF

Juliette Duléry
Ambivalent Civism: Evangelical Youth, Public Commitment, and Moral Conservatism in Taiwan PDF

Fredrik Fällman
Adaptation of Religion – A Tool for Control, Fostering or Something Else? PDF

Monika Gaenssbauer
Wang Weifan (1927–2015): Theologian, Intellectual, Artist PDF

Esther-Maria Guggenmos
Life Education in Contemporary Greater China – Are Religions Back as Players in Public Education? PDF

Huang Zhicang
Breaking Barriers: Women, Education, and Evangelization in Kulangsu International Settlement PDF

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2024, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China 
October 13 – December 4, 2023 PDF

Juliette Duléry
Ambivalent Civism: Evangelical Youth, Public Commitment, and Moral Conservatism in Taiwan PDF

Fredrik Fällman
Adaptation of Religion – A Tool for Control, Fostering or Something Else? PDF

Monika Gaenssbauer
Wang Weifan (1927–2015): Theologian, Intellectual, Artist PDF

Esther-Maria Guggenmos
Life Education in Contemporary Greater China – Are Religions Back as Players in Public Education? PDF

Huang Zhicang
Breaking Barriers: Women, Education, and Evangelization in Kulangsu International Settlement PDF

2023, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 29 – October 29, 2023 PDF

Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD
John Wu’s (Wu Jingxiong 吳經熊, 1899–1986) Understanding of Mysticism – Beyond East and West PDF

Dirk Kuhlmann
Book Review of: Wu Kin Pan, Thy Kingdom Come: Rev. Dr. Ernst Faber’s (Hua Zhi’an, 1839–1899) Intercultural-Missionary Vision of Chinese Spirituality  PDF

Leopold Leeb
Book Review of: Yao Peng 姚鵬, Bai nian liuze. Cong Tushanwan dao Zhuxiang hui 百年流泽: 从土山湾到诸巷会 (Flowing a Hundred Years. From Tushanwan to Zhuxianghui) PDF

2023, No. 3

He Guanghu
How about the Choking of Human Flourishing, and “Over-flourishing”? An Opening Remark on the “International Seminar on Human Flourishing in East Asia” PDF

Esther-Maria Guggenmos
Symposium “Shaping the Outlook on Life – Education and Religion in Chinese Contexts” PDF

Anthony Hu
Neo-Missionaries in Republican China
A Study of Selected Training Materials Mostly in Bilingual Format for the Divine Word Missionaries in Shandong PDF

Leopold Leeb
Film Review: Yinru chenyan 隐入尘烟 (Return to Dust),
Directed by: Li Ruijun 李睿珺, China 2022, 133 Minutes PDF

2023, No. 2

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2022 PDF

He Guanghu
Preface to Tseng Shaokai 曾劭恺 (ed.), Wenhua xuanjiao 文化宣教 (“Cultural Mission”), Jidujiao wenyi chubanshe 基督教文艺出版社, Taiwan (planned for summer 2023) PDF

Barbara Hoster
How Did the Rabbit Get on the Moon? Notes for the Year of the Rabbit PDF

2023, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
October 16 – December 7, 2022 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Conference in Macerata “Inculturation of the Christian Faith and Today’s Chinese Society” PDF

Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD
Xi Jinping’s Zongjiao Zhongguohua (Chinazation of Religion) and the Christian Idea of Inculturation PDF

2022, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 21 – September 29, 2022 PDF

Paulin Batairwa Kubuya
Truly Chinese, Truly Christian: An Exploration of the ronghe yu huitong – The Inculturation Model of Archbishop Stanislaus Lo Kuang PDF

2022, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 30 – July 5, 2022 PDF

Leopold Leeb
Lu Bohong, the “Forgotten Saint” of Shanghai PDF

Michael Kropp
Book Review of: Chan Shun-hing – Jonathan W. Johnson, Citizens of Two Kingdoms. Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China, Religion in Chinese Societies Vol. 17, Leiden – Boston: Brill 2021 PDF

2022, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 13, 2021 – March 27, 2022 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China and in Singapore – Update for the Year 2021 PDF

Song Mingyan
“A City Set on a Hill”: A Priest and His Church Whose Design Had Been Revised Seven Times PDF

Elisa Giunipero
Book Review of: Bibiana Yee-ying Wong, The Short-lived Catholic Central Bureau:
National Catalyst for Cultural Apostolate in China
(1947–1951), Taipei: Taipei Ricci Institute 2021 PDF

2022, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 10 – December 4, 2021 PDF

Gao Jingchuan
Prevention Concepts against Sexualised Violence – Reflections for the Work of the Church in China with Children and Young People PDF

Piotr Adamek
Tragedy and Hope for Happiness – Stories from the Girl Temples PDF

2021, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 17 – October 25, 2021  PDF

Anton Weber SVD
Mission Experiences in Taiwan, with a Focus on the Indigenous Tsou People  PDF

Katharina Feith
In memoriam: Bishop Yang Xiangtai (1923–2021)  PDF

2021, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 16 – July 6, 2021 PDF

Y. Franklin Ishida
Christian Life among the Lisu in Yunnan Province PDF

Leopold Leeb
Book Review of: Gail King, “A Model for all Christian Women”. Candida Xu, a Chinese Christian Woman of the Seventeenth Century, Collectanea Serica, New Series 2, Abingdon, Oxon – New York – Sankt Augustin: Routledge – Monumenta Serica Institute 2021 PDF

2021, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 27, 2020 – March 11, 2021 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2020 PDF

 

2021, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
October 1 – December 2, 2020 PDF

Piotr Adamek
A Perpetual Migrant Church? – 125 Years of Orthodox Mission in Taiwan PDF

Paulin Batairwa Kubuya
When Ancestors Are a Problem – Answers Questions about His Book: Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion PDF

 

2020, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
May 3 – October 4, 2020 PDF

 
Gianni Criveller
Hong Kong Taken Over by the National Security Law PDF
 
Leopold Leeb
The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ PDF

2020, No. 3

Massimo Borghesi
The Model of Techno-science in Laudato Si’  PDF

Heinrich Geiger
Protection of Nature – Protection of Culture: On the Significance of the Chinese Understanding of Technology in the Context of the International Discussion on Environment PDF

2020, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 11, 2019 – April 18, 2020 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2019 PDF

Dirk Kuhlmann
In memoriam: Rolf G. Tiedemann (1941–2019) PDF

2020, No.1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 23 – December 12, 2019 PDF


Katharina Feith and Barbara Hoster, with the collaboration of Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
“What you want to ignite in others must burn within you”
Obituary on Fr. Roman Malek SVD (1951–2019) – for Many Years Editor-in-chief of China heute and Founding Director of the China-Zentrum PDF

 
Li Jingxi
Reflections on the Sinicization of the Catholic Church in China PDF

Batairwa Kubuya Paulin
Inculturation of the Church in China: The Case of Taiwan PDF

2019, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 28 – October 2, 2019 PDF


Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
“Everything is related”
The 10th European Catholic China Colloquium in Siegburg focused on Laudato Si’, Technoscience and the Church in China PDF

 
Jeroom J. Heyndrickx CICM
Beijing and the Holy See – Seeking the Common Ground. Two Wounded Partners in Dialogue PDF

2019, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 26 – June 28, 2019 PDF


Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2018. Part 2: Religions and Religiosity in General PDF

Benardo Cervellera
Religious Policy in China before and after the Sino-Vatican Agreement PDF

Barbara Hoster
In memoriam: Irene Eber(1929–2019) PDF

2019, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 14, 2018 – March 29, 2019 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber 
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2018. Part 1: Catholic Church PDF

2019, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 29 – November 26, 2018 PDF
 
John Baptist Zhang
Stories of a Hong Kong Sister and Her Congregation in China PDF

2018, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 26 – October 3, 2018 PDF
 
Gregor Weimar
The “Sinicized” National Seminary of Beijing: Liu Bainian’s Ideas for a Chinese Catholic Church PDF

2018, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 19 – June 30, 2018 PDF

Ian Johnson
Religion in China: Back to the Center of Politics and Society PDF

Fredrik Fällman
“Two Small Copper Coins” and Much More. Chinese Protestant Women and Their Contributions to the Church – Cases from Past and Present PDF

Dominic Niu
In the Tent of Meeting: Conference on Inculturation of Catholicism in China (天主教在中国的本地化) Held in Jilin PDF

2018, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 19, 2017 – March 13, 2018 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2017 PDF

R.G. Tiedemann
Chinese Female Propagators of the Faith in Modern China
The Tortuous Transition from the “Institute of Virgins” to Diocesan Religious Congregations PDF

2018, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 11 – December 2, 2017 PDF

Katharina Feith
In memoriam: Bishop Lucas Ly (1921–2017) PDF

Leopold Leeb
“Pulverized Historiography” – a Book Review of:
Huang Guangyu 黄光域 (ed.), Jidujiao chuanxing Zhongguo jinian《基督教传行中国纪年》(Chronicle of Protestant Missions Development in China 1807–1949), Guangxi Normal University Press 2017 PDF

2017, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 12 – October 5, 2017 PDF

Piotr Adamek
“Unworthy to Be Quoted among the Believers – Worthy to Be Quoted among the Martyrs”
Women in the Orthodox Church in China PDF


Katharina Feith
Summer Academy on Christian Social Teaching for Chinese Theologians in Siegburg PDF

2017, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 28 – July 7, 2017 PDF

Katrin Fiedler
Invisible and Invincible: Changing Female Roles in the Chinese Protestant Church and Their Perceptions PDF

Matteo Nicolini-Zani
“The Monastery Will Be a Chinese House”: The Inculturation of the Church in China from the Perspective of the History of Catholic Monasticism PDF

2017, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 13, 2016 – March 29, 2017 PDF

Anthony Lam
A Unique Situation: The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong Twenty Years after the City’s Handover PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Statistics on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China – Update for the Year 2016 PDF

2017, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 26 – December 2, 2016 PDF

Dominic Niu
The Sixth Conference on the Role and Influence of Christianity in Contemporary Chinese Society (第六届基督教在当代中国社会的作用及其影响) Held in Beijing PDF

Karl Josef Rivinius
Manuale missionariorum: Manual for Evangelization in the Apostolic Vicariate of South Shandong PDF

2016, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
July 1 – October 2, 2016 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
The State Council Publishes a Draft Revision of the “Regulations on Religious Affairs” PDF

Fredrik Fällman
Evangelisation in the Protestant Church in China – Reflections of a Western Sinologist PDF

2016, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 23 – June 28, 2016 PDF

Jing Baolu
The Evangelization of Culture and the Inculturation of the Faith in the Context of a Humanistic Society in Contemporary China: An Opportunity or a Challenge? PDF

Isabel Hess-Friemann
Evangelization through Art in China: A Protestant PerspectivePDF

2016, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 10, 2015 – March 24, 2016 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
2015 Statistical Update on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China PDF

Sr. Teresa Yu
Report on the Experiences Made by Religious Sisters in Mainland China with Their Present Efforts in the Work of Evangelization PDF

Jean Charbonnier, MEP
The Priests’ Responsibility in Communicating with Non-Christians PDF

Norman Jennings
Challenges and Opportunities of Formation Programmes for Chinese Students – The Example of Ireland PDF

2016, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 18 – November 30, 2015 PDF

Raimund Kern
Colloquium “Challenges of Evangelisation – China and Europe”PDF

Dmitry I. Petrovsky
Perspectives and Experiences of the Russian Orthodox Church Regarding Evangelization in Russia and China PDF

2015, Nos. 3-4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 4 – September 28, 2015 PDF

Paul Han, SVD
The Church in China Urgently Needs the Attitude and Spirit of Francis PDF
 
Richard Madsen
Church State Relations in China – Consequences for the Catholic Church PDF

2015, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 28, 2014 – February 24, 2015PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
2014 Statistical Update on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China PDF

Jac Kuepers, SVD
In memoriam Father Arnold Heinrich Sprenger, SVD (1929–2015) PDF

2015, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 13 – December 9, 2014PDF

Piotr Adamek
Orthodox Priests for China: First Ordination PDF

Dirk Kuhlmann
The Nameless Majority – Impressions from a Workshop on the Role of Women in the Chinese Churches PDF

2014, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 29 – October 15, 2014 PDF

Barbara Darimont
Social Security in the P.R. China – Exemplified by Urban and Rural Health Insurance PDF

Renée Rentke
Between Greed for Gain and Altruism – Concrete Examples of Social Security in Rural Areas PDF

Paul Li Haiyan
How the Social Systems Impact the Church (Especially the Priests and Sisters) – Using Hongdong Diocese as an Example PDF

2014, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
April 3 – June 29, 2014 PDF

Sr. Clare Zhang Jiaqin
Present Situation and Future Development of Sisters’ Congregations in China PDF

2014, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
December 1, 2013 – March 19, 2014 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
2013 Statistical Update on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China PDF

Bianca Horlemann
Xixiang, a Historic Catholic Mission Station in Northwest China PDF

2014, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 1 – November 24, 2013 PDF

Zhuo Xinping
Relationship between Religion and State in the People’s Republic of China PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
International Conference “Catholicism and China: Dialogue, Inculturation and Responsibility” in Hong Kong PDF

2013, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
June 18 – September 19, 2013 PDF

Wang Meixiu
Church-State Relations and Their Impact on Christian Charity in China – Retrospect and Preview PDF

John B. Zhang
Walking in Love and Service Together with China and the Chinese Church PDF

Special Supplement:
The China Center Team – 25 Years China-Zentrum, Sankt Augustin PDF

Barbara Hoster
Little Sister, Big Sister – Cooperation between the China Center and the Monumenta Serica Institute PDF

2013, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 2 – June 15, 2013 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
2012 Statistical Update on Religions and Churches in the People’s Republic of China and in Taiwan PDF

2013, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
November 22, 2012 – February 28, 2013 PDF

Jonathan Goldstein
Shanghai as a Mosaic and Microcosm of Eurasian Jewish Identities, 1850–1950 PDF

2013, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
October – November 2012 PDF

Joseph Loftus
“Walk before you can run” – The Catholic Church and the Care of China’s Elderly PDF

Deng Guosheng
The Decline of Foreign Aid and the Dilemma of the Chinese Grassroots NGOs (corrected version as of March 18, 2013) PDF

2012, No. 4

News Update on Religion and Church in China
July 2012 to September 2012 PDF

Peter O’Neill SSC
Models of Caring for Migrants in Taiwan PDF

Michael Lackner
Lessons from Matteo Ricci – Reflection on the Chinese-Western Transfer of Ideas by Matteo Ricci and Its Implications for the Chinese-European Encounter PDF

2012, No. 3

News Update on Religion and Church in China
March 22 to June 29, 2012 PDF

Interview with His Eminence Cardinal John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, July 17, 2012 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
People’s Republic of China: Religions and Churches – Statistical Overview 2011 PDF

2012, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
December 2011 – March 2012 PDF

John B. Zhang
The Chinese Church’s Response to Migration within Mainland China (Part II) PDF, (Part I) PDF

Sigurd Kaiser
The Kingdom and Power: Elements of Growth in Chinese Christianity – Some Personal Insights PDF

2012, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
September 15 – December 4, 2011 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
“Transcendent and Secular at the Same Time” – News from the Field of the Religious Media PDF

John B. Zhang
The Chinese Church’s Response to Migration within Mainland China (Part I) PDF, (Part II) PDF

2011, No. 2

News Update on Religion and Church in China
May 14 – September 28, 2011 PDF

Katharina Wenzel-Teuber
Sino-Vatican Relations Reach a New LowPDF

Agostino Marchetto
Chinese in Europe – Catholic Perspectives – A European Vision: Commitment and Solidarity PDF

Pietro Cui Xingang
Chinese in Europe – Catholic Perspectives – A Chinese Vision: Commitment and Solidarity PDF

Maggi Whyte – Sheila Crowe
The Chinese Community in Britain and Ireland and the Response of the Churches PDF

Gotthard Oblau
Chinese Christian Communities in Germany PDF

2011, No. 1

News Update on Religion and Church in China
January 1 – June 8, 2011 PDF

Roman Malek
People’s Republic of China: Churches and Religions – Annual Statistical Overview 2010/2011 PDF

“I was a stranger and you made me welcome” – Chinese in Europe – a Christian Answer: Final Statement of the 8th European Catholic China Colloquium PDF

Gregor Benton
The Chinese in Europe: Origins and Transformations PDF

Dorottya Nagy
Fiery Dragons: Chinese Communities in Central and Eastern Europe, with Special Focus on Hungary and Romania PDF

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