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China Christianity

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More people go to church on Sunday in China than in the whole of Europe. An official survey in 2010 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found there were 23 million registered Protestants in China The government says 25 million, 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics. Independent estimates all agree this is a vast underestimate. A conservative figure is 60 million. There are already more Chinese at church on a Sunday than in the whole of Europe. The Haidian Christian Church in Beijing was completely re-built to cope with rising numbers