{"id":30608,"date":"2020-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/a-catholic-experience-in-western-china-4895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:34:46","slug":"a-catholic-experience-in-western-china-4895","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/reports\/a-catholic-experience-in-western-china-4895\/","title":{"rendered":"A Catholic experience in western China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4af31576312ec90b9ed22c3ed4ed6875.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Catholic Diocese of Fengxiang is located in Shaanxi in Northwest China. Despite the introduction of several economic and technological development zones, inequality and poverty persist, exacerbated by a rural-urban divide. Many churches in Fengxiang are not wealthy, and their priests sometimes live on the edge of poverty themselves, devoting their time to ministering to the rural poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The information <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2020-11-a-catholic-experience-in-western-china.pdf\">in this briefing<\/a> comes from an independent researcher who has been exploring the history of the diocese and the challenges faced by the Catholic community there in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2020-11-a-catholic-experience-in-western-china.pdf\">Download the full briefing on A Catholic experience in western China.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic experience in western China<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44603,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[131,128],"class_list":["post-30608","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-china","regions-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35564,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30608\/revisions\/35564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30608"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}