The Communist Party’s clashes with religion

The People's Republic of China is officially an atheist country – yet gods and immortals still hold great influence over people’s lives. There are hundreds of millions of followers of the main religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and Islam – as well as Falun Gong, the largest of several banned new religious movements. Those groups don’t have much in common theologically but each offers an alternative perspective on life to the ideology of the ruling Communist Party. This...