Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In the spring of 1979, Chinese churches resumed worship after the Cultural Revolution.In order to revive the church, the China Christian Council was founded at the third national Christian conference in 1980, to unite and provide services for churches in China, formulating Church Order and encouraging theological education.
Yanbian Korean churches and house churches in China have been a matter of controversy for the Chinese government because of their links to South Korean churches. [93] Many of the Korean house churches in China receive financial support and pastoral ordinations from South Korean churches, and some of them are effectively branches of South Korean ...
The independent churches established during the republican era are the most well known and representative of the many independent churches in China. Today, many of them constitute a significant portion of what is generally termed the house church movement in China, because after 1949, with the arrival of Communist control and departure of all ...
The church is part of the official Protestant Church of China, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Sunday church services take place mainly in Lisu. Of the 18,000 Lisu who lived in Fugong in 1950 – 3,400 adhered to the Christian faith. As of 2007, it was estimated that 80–90 percent of the 70,000 professed the Christian faith. [7]
In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gained control of mainland China and established the People's Republic of China (PRC). Shortly thereafter, well-known Christian leader Y. T. Wu authored and published "The Christian Manifesto", which publicly supported the CCP's policy of overseeing the church for the sake of national unity and progress and called on all Protestant Christians to ...
Chinese house churches are a religious movement of unregistered assemblies of Christians in China, which operate independently of the government-run Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and China Christian Council (CCC) for Protestant groups and the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA) and the Chinese Catholic Bishops Council (CCBC) for ...
The Catholic Church (Chinese: 天主教; pinyin: Tiānzhǔ jiào; lit. 'Religion of the Lord of Heaven', after the Chinese term for the Christian God) first appeared in China upon the arrival of John of Montecorvino in China proper during the Yuan dynasty; he was the first Catholic missionary in the country, and would become the first bishop of Khanbaliq (1271–1368).
The China Gospel Fellowship (Chinese: 中华福音团契，也称中华福音会，简称中福), also known as the Tanghe Fellowship (唐河团契), is one of the largest evangelical Christian religious movements in China, [1] and is a house church network formed in the province of Henan. It has approximately 5 million members.