Posted on 02/18/2018 5:44:33 PM PST by marshmallow
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - There were 48,556 newly baptized in 2017 in mainland China. The statistics published by "Faith Cultural Society" on the eve of the Chinese New Year, and sent to Agenzia Fides, "are not complete", says Faith, due to the lack of data on the Catholic communities living in remote rural areas, but "reflect the vitality and the missionary dynamism of a community that fully lives faith".
According to data sent to Agenzia Fides, the province of He Bei, a stronghold of Chinese Catholicism, for the umpteenth time is first with its 11.899 baptized. Among these, the Xing Tai community had 3,645 baptized and the diocese of Han Dan 3.059. Moreover, even the isolated community in the province of Hai Nan had 38 baptized. In the area that records a high number of Muslim population as the autonomous administration of Xin Jiang (in western China), there were 66 baptisms, while 128 are those of the province of Ning Xia and 54 in Qing Hai. Even the small Catholic community in Tibet, immersed in the Tibetan Buddhist environment, welcomed 11 new Catholics. In the diocese of Beijing, 1,099 were baptized.
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It could end up that the majority of people in Heaven are Chinese.
It could very well be the majority of needed Christian missionary folks to the west.
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