Items of Interest February 4, 2013 Issue

China's Christian population grows to 25 million

“China has 25 mn Christians” © 2012 China National News. Used with permission.
December 24, 2012

China, a country with a population of 1.3 billion, has about 25 million Christians, said a state-run Chinese daily Monday.

An article in the Global Times cited official statistics to say that China has about 25 million Christians, a sharp increase from 16 million in 2005 and more than 30 times the number in 1949.

The daily quoted Harvey Cox, a theologian in Rome, as saying that China could well become home to the world’s largest Christian population in the next two decades. The United States has the world’s largest population of Christians, pegged at 247 million in 2010.

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