The diocese of Shanghai was painted in the color of hope last Easter Vigil during Holy Week 2024, with a total of 470 baptisms of new members of the Catholic Church in China.
According to the Vatican agency Fideswhich collects information from the Chinese Catholic newspaper Xinde, of this group a total of 349 received the sacraments of Christian initiation: that is, not only Baptism, but also Confirmation and the Eucharist.
Fides also reports that 142 baptisms were celebrated in the Beijing cathedral on Easter night; while in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, founded by the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, 100 people received Baptism; and in the Nuestra Señora del Carmen church there were another 25 baptisms.