previous updates on the Church in China

December 2007

8 Dec.: printing of fifty millionth Bible in China celebrated in Nanjing (more)

November 2007

8 Nov.: Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "no ban on Bibles in Olympic village" (more)

September 2007

26 Sept.: Vietnamese Cardinal Pham in Beijing (more)

New bishop of Beijing ordained with tacit approval of Rome (more)

New tool for researchers on Christianity in post-1949 China (more)

August 2007

"Reconciliation" : from Bosnia and South Africa to the Chinese Church of Xinxiang (more)

July 2007

25 July: Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association celebrating fiftieth anniversary more

16 July: Li Shan elected new bishop of Beijing, awaiting confirmation of bishops' conference more (in Chinese)

7 July: Beijing expelling Christian missionaries in run-up to Olympics (Asia News)

Statement of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on recent papal letter (text)

June 2007

Long-awaited  papal Letter to the Catholic Church in China out (text) (comments)