![]() Under government pressure in the 1950s, Baptist congregations and other Protestant churches across China severed their ties with overseas churches, and their congregations subsequently merged into the Three-Self Patriotic Church. Missionary activity ceased after the communist take over of China in 1949. Numerous mission properties and native church leaders in Sichuan were respectively destroyed and killed by communists in the mid-1930s. ![]() Although the former did not affect Sichuan so much as some other parts of China, the province was one of the hotbeds of anti-missionary riots throughout its ecclesiastical history. Missionary activity in China generated controversy among many native Chinese and faced armed opposition during both the Boxer Rebellion and the later Communist movement in China. ![]() Baptist missionaries in Sichuan were organized under the American Baptist Missionary Union, later renamed American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The history of Baptist Christianity in Sichuan (or "West China") began in the late 1800s when missionaries began arriving from the United States. ![]()
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