Editing Henan (section)

===Religion===
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|caption = Religion in Henan (2012)<ref name="CFPS2012">China Family Panel Studies 2012: {{cite web |url=http://iwr.cass.cn/zjwh/201403/W020140303370398758556.pdf |script-title=zh:当代中国宗教状况报告——基于CFPS（2012）调查数据 |publisher=[[CASS]] |language=zh-cn |date=3 March 2014 |pages=13, 24 |access-date=7 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809051625/http://iwr.cass.cn/zjwh/201403/W020140303370398758556.pdf |archive-date=9 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|label1 = Non religious and [[Chinese folk religion|traditional faiths]]
|value1 = 86.1
|color1 = Honeydew
|label2 = [[Buddhism in China|Buddhism]]
|value2 = 6.4
|color2 = Yellow
|label3 = [[Protestantism in China|Protestantism]]
|value3 = 5.6
|color3 = DodgerBlue
|label4 = [[Catholicism in China|Catholic]]
|value4 = 0.5
|color4 = DarkOrchid
|label5 = [[Islam in China|Islam]]
|value5 = 1.3
|color5 = Green
|label6 = Others
|value6 = 0.2
|color6 = GreenYellow
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According to a 2012 survey<ref name="CFPS2012"/> only around 13% of the population of Henan belongs to organised religions, the largest groups being [[Buddhism in China|Buddhists]] with 6.4%, followed by [[Protestantism in China|Protestants]] with 5.6%, [[Islam in China|Muslims]] with 1.3% and [[Catholicism in China|Catholics]] with 0.5%. Henan has some important centres of [[Chinese Buddhism]], the [[White Horse Temple]] and the famous [[Shaolin Monastery]].

Henan has also the largest [[Christianity in Henan|Christian population]] by numbers and percentage of any province of China,<ref name="CFPS2012"/> 6.1% of the province's population {{As of|2012|lc=y}}, corresponding to approximately 7&nbsp;million Christians. A 2009 survey reported the share of Christians to be 9.33%.<ref name="Wang2015">China General Social Survey 2009, Chinese Spiritual Life Survey (CSLS) 2007. Report by: [https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/bitstream/handle/2104/9326/WANG-THESIS-2015.pdf?sequence=1 Xiuhua Wang (2015, p. 15)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925123928/https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/bitstream/handle/2104/9326/WANG-THESIS-2015.pdf?sequence=1 |date=25 September 2015 }}</ref>  In 2019, Communist officials demolished the [[True Jesus Church (Caidu)|True Jesus Church]] near Zhumadian.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianpost.com/world/china-authorities-forcibly-demolish-illegal-church-elderly-congregants-injured.html |title=China: Authorities forcibly demolish 'illegal' church; elderly congregants injured |date=15 October 2019 |access-date=9 February 2020}}</ref>  In 2020, Communist officials demolished the [[Sunzhuang Church]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kumar |first=Anugrah |date=2020-06-27 |title=China: 200 communist officials demolish church, beat Christians |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/china-200-communist-officials-demolish-church-beat-christians.html |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=The Christian Post |language=en-US}}</ref>

The reports didn't give figures for other types of religion; 86% of the population may be either irreligious or involved in [[Chinese folk religion|worship of nature deities]], [[Confucianism]], [[Taoism]] and [[Chinese salvationist religions|folk religious sects]] (for example, a sect that is endogenous to Henan is the [[Tianxian miaodao]]). According to a 2007 survey, approximately 8% of the Henanese believe in and are involved in [[Chinese ancestral religion|ancestor veneration]], the traditional Chinese religion of the lineages organised into [[lineage church]]es and [[ancestral shrine]]s.<ref name="Wang2015"/>
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|image1    = 关林光照日月牌匾 行摄梓地.jpg
|caption1  = Detail with incense burner at the Guanlin, Temple Mausoleum of [[Guan Yu|Guandi]] in [[Luoyang]].

|image2    = Indian Temple in White Horse Temple.jpg
|caption2  = Indian style pavilion of the [[White Horse Temple]], the first Buddhist temple in China.

|image3    = City god temple in Anyang.JPG
|caption3  = Temple of the [[Chenghuangshen]] (City God) of [[Anyang]].

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|caption4  = The [[Spring Temple Buddha|Zhongyuan Buddha]] (Great Buddha of the Central Plains) of the Temple of the Spring in [[Lushan County, Henan|Lushan]] is currently the second [[List of tallest statues|tallest statue]] in the world.
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