Christianity in Liaoning

Christianity in Liaoning

Christianity is a minority in Liaoning, a province of the People's Republic of China. Multimillionaire Leung Moon-Lam intended to build a theme park on the bible there. [1] The number of Christians in the province has increased dramatically since the Cultural Revolution, having been at about 60,000 in 1965. [2] A significant minority are of Korean origin. [3] The number of registered churches and meeting points exceeds 1000. [4] The number of Protestants exceeds half a million. [5] The number of Christians in Shenyang was estimated to be 200,000 as of 2000. [6] An estimate for 1996 was 70,000. [7] Shenyang has North East Theological Seminary. [8] Liaoning has a far lower number of arrests of Christians than other provinces. [9] Dalian had about 1 % Christians in 2003. [10] Fuxin has a Christian population estimated at below 1 %. [11]

Roman Catholic dioceses with seat in Liaoning

References

  1. ^ http://www.ikonrtv.nl/Kerknieuws/mobiel/artikel.php?i=16780
  2. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  6. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  7. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  8. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  9. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  10. ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  11. ^ http://www.peopleofchina.net/map/fuxin.htm

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