HONG KONG (SE): Government interference in religion is growing in China, with authorities suppressing Islam and denigrating Christian teachings as a foreign import, a report released by Freedom House on February 28 maintains.
Radio Free Asia quoted the report as saying that to the detriment of Christianity and Islam, Beijing is promoting Chinese Buddhism and Taoism, as it sees them as being more supportive of traditional notions of loyalty to the state.
HOHHOT (SE): During renovation worker on an old house near the Tongshunjie Church in Hohhot, Mongolia, two one century-old monuments were uncovered.
China Source reported on June 5 that one is a commemoration of a Swedish missionary, Anna Karlsson. Her name is carved on the stone in English. The other monument is inscribed with Chinese names, which probably belong to the early Chinese Christians in the region.
NEW YORK (CNS): Despite its brevity, In Our Time (Nostra Aetate), or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council marks a starting point for dialogue among Christians, Muslims and Jews that must be continued into the future.
