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China's 'great visionary' Bishop K. H. Ting dies at 97

[Episcopal News Service] K. H. Ting, an Anglican bishop prior to China’s Cultural Revolution and a pioneer in the country’s post-denominational era, died on Nov. 22 in Nanjing aged 97.

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Hong Kong churches protest Beijing-sponsored school curriculum

By Francis Wong, Ecumenical News International

Some 90,000 people took to the streets on 29 July in Hong Kong to urge the government to withdraw a new education curriculum said to be biased in favor of China's Communist party. About 150 Christian schools said they would refuse to use the course in the new school year.

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Rise in Christians has China's churches, government looking for help

[Episcopal News Service By Lynette Wilson] A small white chapel of Western design sits amid the high-rise residential buildings of Macau, a former Portuguese colony now administered by the People’s Republic of China. Popularly known as the “Morrison Chapel” in honor of Scotsman and Presbyterian minister Rev. Robert Morrison, the first missionary to land in the region in 1807 and the first to translate and publish the Bible in Chinese, it was the first Protestant chapel built on Chinese soil.

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