The Seoul Declaration, unveiled during the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) General Assembly in South Korea this week, reaffirmed the authority of Scripture, clarifying evangelical positions on pluralism and sexuality, and calling for unity and renewal amid global division and cultural change.

On October 23, the website of China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released a State Council announcement on the appointment and removal of national officials. Duan Yijun was appointed as the director of the National Religious Affairs Administration and will no longer serve as deputy head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission.

From October 13 to 14, 2025, China and UN Women co-hosted the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women in Beijing. I recall with joy the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and its parallel NGO Forum held in Beijing thirty years ago, in 1995.

As the recent Global Leaders' Meeting on Women concluded in Beijing, Cao Shengjie, the first woman president of the China Christian Council, recalled how she and other Christian fellows joined more than 17,000 participants from 189 countries and regions at the historic Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, 30 years ago.

After decades under the guidance of a founding pastor, a church in northern China has embarked on a bold experiment in shared leadership. Moving away from a single-leader structure, it has introduced a “Three-Role Division” model that distributes authority among three teams—the Administration, Pastoral Ministry, and Overseers.

Pastor Ye transformed a youth fellowship into a well-structured church, implementing formal governance, member systems, and staff development, while navigating challenges like pandemic-era communion, creating a cohesive and actively engaged congregation.

Quanzhou is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road and the southern gateway for the introduction of religions to China. Thus, in the old Quanzhou, onw will see religious sites: Buddhist temples, Taoist shrines, General Guanyu's temples, or Christian churches.

In recent years, many churches in China have observed a noticeable decline in the number of young people attending services or participating in church life. While this trend is not unique to China, it has prompted leaders and believers to reflect more deeply on its causes.

According to Pew's recent report, 1.3 billion people in China—90% of the population—identified as religiously unaffiliated in 2020, making China the country with the largest unaffiliated population in the world. Meanwhile, China’s Christian population remains outside the world’s ten largest.

After 17 years of reconstruction, a centennial church in Sichuan Province that was destroyed during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake has been rebuilt on original site.