Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...
is a
minority religion
A minority religion is a religion held by a minority of the population of a country, state, or region. Minority religions may be subject to stigma or discrimination. An example of a stigma is using the term cult with its extremely negative conn ...
in the Chinese province of
Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...
.
Gha-Mu and
A-Hmao A-Hmao (''Big Flowery Miao'') are an Hmongic ethnic group in China. They are from Yunnan and Sichuan and also live in Guizhou. The number of persons within this group likely exceeds 400,000. They are speakers of the A-Hmao language
The A-Hmao la ...
are ethnic groups with large share of Christians. The
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guiyang
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guiyang/Kweyang ( la, Coeiiamen(sis), ) is an archdiocese located in the city of Guiyang in China.
History
* October 15, 1696: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Kweichow from the Apostolic Vicariate of Fuji ...
and the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanlong
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanlong/Anlong ( la, Nganlomen(sis), ) is a diocese located in Anlong (Guizhou) in the Ecclesiastical province of Guiyang in China.
History
* February 16, 1922: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Nanlong 南 ...
have their seats in the province. Sam Pollard was a missionary of
China Inland Mission
OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore. It was founded i ...
, who was active among the A-Hmao.
When the new government took power in 1949, Guizhou may have had about 40,000 Protestants. The current Protestant population is at about half a million.
Christianity in Dafang
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global populati ...
and
Christianity in Weining, which both mainly consist of Protestants, exceed 100,000.
They both are part of
Christianity in Bijie.
Persecution of Christians
The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts to Christianity have both been targeted for persecution, sometimes to the point of b ...
occurs in Guizhou.
[PDF at http://www.mrt-rrt.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/71/chn30727.pdf.aspx]
See also
*
Agatha Lin
Agatha Lin, born in Qinglong County, Guizhou, Qinglong in the Guizhou of southeast China in 1817, was a Chinese saint and martyr. She was a headmistress and Catechesis, catechist, and one of the first to evangelize the Miao people. She was behe ...
– Catholic martyr saint from Guizhou
*
Agnes Tsao Kou Ying – Catholic martyr saint from Guizhou
*
Lucy Yi Zhenmei
Lucy Yi Zhenmei ( zh, t=易貞美, s=易贞美, first=t, w=I Chên-mei, p=Yì Zhēnměi; December 9, 1815 – February 19, 1862) was a Catholic Church in Sichuan, Sichuanese Roman Catholic saint from Mianyang, Sichuan, Sichuan Province, China. ...
–
Sichuanese Sichuanese, Szechuanese or Szechwanese may refer to something of, from, or related to the Chinese province and region of Sichuan (Szechwan/Szechuan) (historically and culturally including Chongqing), especially:
*Sichuanese people, a subgroup of the ...
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
missionary in Guizhou, martyr saint
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Sam Pollard (missionary)
Samuel Pollard (20 April 1864 in Camelford, Cornwall – 16 September 1915 in Weining, China), known in Chinese as Bo Geli () was a British Methodist missionary to China with the China Inland Mission who converted many of the A-Hmao (close ...
* Christianity in Guizhou's neighbouring provinces
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Christianity in Hunan
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Christianity in Sichuan
Christianity is a minority in the Chinese province of Sichuan (formerly romanized as Szechwan or Szechuan; also referred to as "West China" or "Western China"). Eastern Lipo, Kadu people and A-Hmao are ethnic groups present in the province.
His ...
References
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