ITEMS OF INTEREST February 16, 2009 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Goh Sui Noi with contributions from Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan

MS. ARRIANNA Liu ... feels more at ease now saying grace before a meal in a restaurant than she did before. It is not just that the [Chinese] government appears to have loosened the reins on religion. People are also generally more tolerant than they were before of religious practices, including those of a foreign religion like Christianity.

"A few years ago, I would worry about how others saw me. But now, yes, there is curiosity but no judgment," said the Beijing-based Ms. Liu, who works for a nongovernmental organisation. ...

A government-sponsored survey last year found that 300 million Chinese, or 31.4 percent of the country's adult population, considered themselves religious believers, much larger than the government estimate of around 100 million. ...

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