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The Christmas trees shone and sweetened perfume of the candles filled the church of the immaculate old design of 407 years in Beijing where more than 1 500 people, seated or standing in the passageway, waited for the Mass of midnight on the eve of Christmas, in the night of Wednesday to Thursday.

A lot of other people stood up in full air with a temperature of five degrees less, to follow the Mass broadcasted by two gigantic screens.

"We distributed 4000 tickets, but the number could double, according to Ying Mulan, a sister who distributed some booklets on Jesus’ birth, to the entry of the church.

"It is marvelous to see so much Chinese freely coming here for Christmas," said Gill Yours. This American arrived for vacations in Beijing three weeks ago. "The cult of liberty is not that an empty speech of sense here, it has declared.

At the same time, in the city of Shanghai (is), Yan Zhiyuan, vice-president of the National Committee of the Patriotic Movement of the three autonomies of the Protestant church complicates helped to maintain the order outside of the international church of Shanghai. "More of people came to the church this year in relation to the past years", he has affirmed.

According to statistics, China regroups 21 more millions of Christians, and more of 50 millions of Bibles have been printed there. About 600 Christian churches have been constructed since the initiation of the reform and the opening on the stranger in 1978.

An architect himself considering the name of Silinx meditated in a corner of the church while listening to the sacred music. He converted to the Catholic religion in 2005. "I have a lot of intimate friends here, and we can feel the affection of one for another in a so big and so agitated" city, said Silinx.

More than 500 people assembled in the Catholic church of Ping’anqiao in Chengdu, county seat of the Sichuan (southwest), to pray for the victims of the earthquake of May 12.

"I hope that the survivors to the earthquake will be able to pass the winter in security", expressed Cheng Jing, especially arrival of Chongqing for the prayer.

Yet, all Chinese come to the church are not Christians. Thus, Wang, a young graduate of the Normal University of the East of China went three Christmas by the church. "I want to clear the fatigue of the studies and to make a ‘baptism’ of my soul in the atmosphere of Christmas," she has declared.

Deng Zhiwei, vice-president of the Society of Sociology of China makes reference: "some strangers return that the Chinese become believer because of the lack of sense of security, but it is the social security and the opening of China that allow so much Chinese to come to the church. "