Protestants Number 5 Million in China
From Associated Press
HONG KONG —
Bishop K. H. Ting, president of the China Christian Council, says there now are about 5 million Protestants in China, six times the number there in 1949 when communists took over the government.
Ting, a senior leader of the church in China, gave the figure in an interview in Bridge, a Christian bimonthly here.
He says new churches are opening at the rate of about three every two days, and there now are about 5,000 of them.
Estimates have put the number of Catholics at about 3 million.
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