The Independent - London, March 31st, 1996
WHEN CHINA'S Roman Catholics celebrate Easter next weekend, churches like the Nantang church in central Peking will be filled to overflowing. If last Christmas was anything to go by, the crowds outside will be swelled by busloads of nervous security police. But many Catholics won't be in conventional churches at all: rather, they will be worshipping "underground", in clandestine, illegal churches, often in people's homes. Christianity is flourishing in China, and the government is nervous. It is 17 years since the anti-religious policies of the Cultural Revolution were finally relaxed, and ma...
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