- Source: Christianity in Liaoning
Christianity is a minority in Liaoning, a province of the People's Republic of China. Multimillionaire Leung Moon-Lam intended to build a theme park on the Bible there. The number of Christians in the province has increased dramatically since the Cultural Revolution, having been at about 60,000 in 1965.
A significant minority are of Korean origin. The number of registered churches and meeting points exceeds 1000. The number of Protestants exceeds half a million. The number of Christians in Shenyang was estimated to be 200,000 as of 2000. An estimate for 1996 was 70,000. Shenyang has North East Theological Seminary. Liaoning has a far lower number of arrests of Christians than other provinces. Dalian had about 1% Christians in 2003. Fuxin has a Christian population estimated at below 1%.
Roman Catholic dioceses with seat in Liaoning
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang
Roman Catholic Diocese of Fushun
Roman Catholic Diocese of Yingkou
See also
Christianity in Liaoning's neighbouring provinces
Christianity in Hebei
Christianity in Inner Mongolia
Christianity in Jilin
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Christianity in Liaoning
- Christianity in China
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang
- Christianity in Jilin
- Christianity in Inner Mongolia
- Christianity in Hebei
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Yingkou
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Fushun
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Jehol
- Shenyang
