Christians in China border valley keep sweet faith
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GONGSHAN, China  - When China's communist army razed his church, Jesse's grandfather climbed into the forests stacked up above his valley and carved a hole in the trunk of a tree to hide his bible.
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KAMPUNG JIAS, Malaysia  - Deep in the heart of a Malaysian jungle, a preacher holds a meeting under the scorching midday sun, urging followers not to lose faith after their church was demolished by the government.
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BEIJING, Feb. 7 -- A new government-sponsored survey on spirituality in China has found that the number of religious believers among the country's 1.3 billion people is far higher than generally  known, amounting to as many as 300 million.
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China&#39;s state-controlled Catholic  church has quietly nominated a new bishop for Beijing and the  priest chosen said the government would decide whether to seek  approval from Rome as Pope Benedict demanded.
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China defended its record on religious freedom Thursday, saying all Chinese can worship as they choose with no restrictions, and it blasted a U.S. government report that said Beijing persecutes some believers.
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HONG KONG -- Old-time Hong Kongers sometimes call themselves the "people beneath Lion Rock," after the ragged peak that looms over the peninsula joining Hong Kong to mainland China.
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NINE British Christians were killed in a bus crash yesterday as they made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Three Jordanians also lost their lives in the accident on the Desert Highway near the ancient city of Petra in Jordan.
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In an attempt to reunify Chinese Catholics, Benedict XVI sends a conciliatory letter to believers in the People's Republic
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A growing religious movement sees potential to shift a blue state's hue.
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Indian Christians on a peace pilgrimage hold candles during Christmas festivities at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004.
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For many among the small and ancient community of Christians in the West Bank, a new security plan offers more safety than they have experienced in years.
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China's shopping malls in late December leave little doubt that the country has been smitten by Christmas, if not in quite the way devout Christians might hope.
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A CITY will hold its traditional Chinese New Ye
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China has announced new rules on religious groups aimed at ending discrimination on grounds of belief.
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Chinese officials lauded the comfortable majority of the Beijing camp in Hong Kong&#39;s election as a vote for prosperity, but the city&#39;s leading liberal said yesterday China should not doubt the popular desire for democracy.
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Before Israel Morales boarded a plane from Mexico City to Tijuana, his mother slipped a tiny plastic bag containing a coin, lentils and an image of Christ into his pocket, so he wouldn&#039;t be without money, food or faith.
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As the faithful marked Christmas Day, political and religious leaders called for peace and reconciliation amid flickers of hope in places long plagued by conflict.