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.[1] The number of Christians in the province has increased dramatically since the Cultural Revolution, having been at about 60,000 in 1965.[2] A significant minority are of Korean origin.[3] The number of registered churches and meeting points exceeds 1000.[4] The number of Protestants exceeds half a million.[5] The number of Christians in Shenyang was estimated to be 200,000 as of 2000.[6] An estimate for 1996 was 70,000.[7] Shenyang has North East Theological Seminary.[8] Liaoning has a far lower number of arrests of Christians than other provinces.[9] Dalian had about 1% Christians in 2003.[10] Fuxin has a Christian population estimated at below 1%.[11]

Roman Catholic dioceses with seat in Liaoning

References
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  2. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  3. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  4. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
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  6. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  7. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  8. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  9. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  10. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b6fe1b4d.pdf
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-01-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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