- Christianity in Shanghai
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Christianity is a minority faith in Shanghai, a city of China. Shanghai has the highest proportion of Catholic residents of any province-level division in Mainland China (2003).[1] Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai has churches including St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai and She Shan Basilica. Shanghai has far more Christians than Jews, see Shanghighlander and Shanghai Ghetto. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which is close to the governing party Christian Democratic Union (Germany) of Germany, has an office in Shanghai. [2] A 1999 campaign affectuated the closure of about 1000 Christian congregations, with a high amount of violence.[3]
References
- ^ According to Johnstone, Patrick; Schirrmacher, Thomas (2003). Gebet für die Welt. Hänssler. ISBN 978-0-8133-4275-7.
- ^ http://www.kas.de/china/de/publications/14322/
- ^ According to Johnstone, Patrick; Schirrmacher, Thomas (2003). Gebet für die Welt. Hänssler, p. 264 ISBN 978-0813342757.
List of Protestant missionaries in Shanghai (historic)
- Young John Allen
- William Jones Boone
- William Jones Boone, Jr.
- Joseph Edkins
- Frederick Rogers Graves
- Walter Russell Lambuth
- William Lockhart
- Walter Lowrie
- Walter Henry Medhurst
- William Muirhead
- Francis Lister Hawks Pott
- Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
- James Hudson Taylor
- Matthew Tyson Yates
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