China Gospel Fellowship

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

The China Gospel Fellowship (Chinese: 中华福音团契) also known as the Tanghe Fellowship (唐河团契) is one of the largest evangelical Christian religious movements in China,[1] a house church network formed in the province of Henan.[2] In 2002, the Eastern Lightning Chinese Christian cult kidnapped 34 of the Fellowship's leading members and held them for two months.[3] In 2004, more than 100 leaders of the church were arrested as part of governmental raids against unregistered churches.[4] If considered Protestant, it constitutes one of the largest Protestant denominations in the world, and the third largest in China, behind the state-supported Three-Self Patriotic Movement and the Fangcheng Fellowship.

References

  1. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Aikman (2012), p. 81, 367.
  4. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>