From the Telegraph:

Less than four decades later, some believe China is now poised to become not just the world’s number one economy but also its most numerous Christian nation.

Chinese Christians surround Sanjiang Church (Protestant) in Wenzhou to defend it against government threats of demolition.

“By my calculations China is destined to become the largest Christian country in the world very soon,” said Fenggang Yang, a professor of sociology at Purdue University and author of Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule.

“It is going to be less than a generation. Not many people are prepared for this dramatic change.”

China’s Protestant community, which had just one million members in 1949, has already overtaken those of countries more commonly associated with an evangelical boom. In 2010 there were more than 58 million Protestants in China compared to 40 million in Brazil and 36 million in South Africa, according to the Pew Research Centre’s Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Prof Yang, a leading expert on religion in China, believes that number will swell to around 160 million by 2025. That would likely put China ahead even of the United States, which had around 159 million Protestants in 2010 but whose congregations are in decline.

By 2030, China’s total Christian population, including Catholics, would exceed 247 million, placing it above Mexico, Brazil and the United States as the largest Christian congregation in the world, he predicted.

There’s a pretty good book on this that came out some years ago: Jesus in Beijing by David Aikman.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.