Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: With a POD after 1513, the challenge isto have at least 10% of the Chinese population at least self-identifying as Catholic in 2013. Bonus points if it is 15% or higher.
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Your title says China, but the description says Korea. Anyway Korea is 25% Christian in OTL.
As far as China goes, this not happening might give you what you want, eventually.
A more successful Ming Dynasty would almost inevitably result in significant Catholic presence, the church got the last of the fleeing Ming remnants to convert to catholicism; the nobility was highly receptive of it and there were entire communities known for conversion. It was growing in popularity before the Ming fell, once again began to rise during the Qing before it was outright outlawed and everyone who refused to become an apostate became a slave or expelled from the country, and suffered again with the people's republic of china. Catholicism always begins to grow before something happens to smash it down to size, only for it to pick back up again.Challenge: With a POD after 1513, the challenge isto have at least 10% of the Chinese population at least self-identifying as Catholic in 2013. Bonus points if it is 15% or higher.
Your title says China, but the description says Korea. Anyway Korea is 25% Christian in OTL.
As long as the Catholic missionaries unwilling to accept traditional practices like honoring one's ancestors, then it won't happen.
The Catholic missionaries must also be willing and sincere to prove themselves that they are not henchmen of Vatican.
Wasn't the reason why they got thrown out because of certain pope wanting to meddle in China's affair ?
In the 1930s, the Vatican became rather complicit with the Japanese. Like, regurgitating Japanese propaganda at their masses, holding special masses to celebrate the "liberation" of Nanking, and even asking for Amaterasu's blessing. Pius XII permitted Confucian rites in 1939 because he wanted to grant legitimacy to Manchukuo, whose state ideology was heavily based on Confucian teachings on submission to wise rulers. It wasn't because of a sudden respect for another culture.
At least the Vatican has the excuse of being naive and threatened for what they did in Europe. A lot of non-Communist Chinese haven't forgotten this.
IMO the post-war Chinese government (Nationalist or Communist) should have entirely banned the Catholic Church altogether.
No offence, but is there a chance there was also propaganda and slendering from Protestant ministers, missionaires and all? they where in China too, and clashed for sure at times.
I have never heard of this, and it's possible indeed considering what all happened by the European side of WWII, but I would be warry of some sources.