In 2023, the government decreed that all places of worship must uphold the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, implement Xi Jinping Thought, and promote the sinicization of religion. In 2012, Xi Jinping made fighting moral void and corruption through a return to traditional culture one of the primary tasks of the government. The government founded the Confucius Institute in 2004 to promote Chinese culture. Chris White, in a 2017 work for the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity of the Max Planck Society, criticises the data and narratives put forward by these authors. There has been much speculation by some Western authors about the number of Christians in China. As a reaction, the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century would have been inspired by indigenous Chinese movements against the influence of Christian missionaries-“devils” as they were called by the Boxers-and Western colonialism.

Later, many folk religious and institutional religious temples were destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion. The forms of Chinese religious expression tend to be syncretic and following one religion does not necessarily mean the rejection or denial of others. The expression of the Prophet in the hadith alludes to the great advancement rather than the awful development connoting that it incorporates those advancements that agree to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet. The late Tang dynasty saw the spread of the cult of the City Gods in direct bond to the development of the cities as centers of commerce and the rise in influence of merchant classes. Yugoslavian partisans sabotage the Krupp steelworks in the city of Zeneca. Four surveys conducted respectively in the years 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011 as part of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of the Renmin University of China found an average 6.2% of the Chinese identifying as Buddhists, 2.3% as Christians (of whom 2% Protestants and 0.3% Catholics), 2.2% as members of folk religious sects, 1.7% as Muslims, and 0.2% as Taoists.

The CFPS 2014 survey, published in early 2017, found that 15.87% of the Chinese declare to be Buddhists, 5.94% to belong to unspecified other religions, 0.85% to be Taoists, 0.81% to be members of the popular sects, 2.53% to be Christians (2.19% Protestants and 0.34% Catholics) and 0.45% to be Muslims. 12.9% or 173 million practised Taoism on a level indistinguishable from the folk religion; 0.9% or 12 million people identified exclusively as Taoists; 13.8% or 185 million identified as Buddhists, of whom 1.3% or 17.3 million had received formal initiation; 2.4% or 33 million identified as Christians, of whom 2.2% or 30 million as Protestants (of whom only 38% baptised in the official churches) and 0.02% or 3 million as Catholics; and an additional 1.7% or 23 million were Muslims. 10% of the population belonging to organised religions; specifically, 6.75% were Buddhists, 2.4% were Christians (of whom 1.89% Protestants and 0.41% Catholics), 0.54% were Taoists, 0.46% were Muslims, and 0.40% declared to belong to other religions. Sun Yat-sen and his successor Chiang Kai-shek were both Christians. This phenomenon has been mentioned in different Upanishads, though the person in sun described by them remained unidentified. Matthew 5:45 states the sun rises equally on the just and unjust.

Every year, half a million people like Byrd visit the emergency rooms in the United States with kidney stones, and around one in 10 Americans will have a kidney stone at some point in their life. Around the same year, Kenneth Dean estimated 680 million people involved in folk religion, or 51% of the total population. In the early 2000s, the Chinese government became open especially to traditional religions such as Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and folk religion, emphasizing the role of religion in building a Confucian Harmonious Society. This indicates that for all eternity the Father has had the role of leading and directing among the persons of the Trinity, even though Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are equal in deity and attributes. God’s Son, Jesus, lived and died so that you and I could live this life more wonderfully than we could ever have imagined, and live beyond death in a reality which surpasses our very imaginations. Sometimes we see that man’s choice of a leader is not God’s.