Chinese Students Choosing Christianity

Religious Conversion Expands As More Chinese Students Study In U.S.

By RESHMA KIRPALANI

March 10, 2011—

“Kitty” encountered Christianity at several junctures of her life in Eastern China — first through a wayward aunt, then through a reformed cousin, and finally via a high school classmate who was quiet about her faith.

But a lack of in-depth knowledge about the religion paired with an education based in Marxist principles, which shuns religion, led Kitty to discount Christianity while she lived in China.

“In school they would not say, ‘There is no God,'” said Kitty, a University of Texas graduate who asked that her Chinese name not be used. “They would just say, ‘You should believe in science. You should believe in anything you can see.’ So we only believed in something we could see or something we could hear. And surely we cannot see God.”

Cut to February 2011: Members of the Austin Chinese Campus Christian Fellowship sing an up-beat Christian hymn in a classroom on the University of Texas campus. Kitty is in the second row. Her body thrums with devotion as she sings, “You opened my eyes to your wonders anew. You captured my heart with this love. Because nothing on Earth is as beautiful as you, Jesus!”… (read the rest of this article)