Former megachurch pastor Francis Chan, who founded the We Are Church house church network in 2011, says he stepped away from ...

The Chinese Communist Party escalated its persecution of Christians throughout 2022 as the country clamped down on churches and ... suffocate the house church movement, which consists of Christian ...

A professor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Wagner began studying what he believed were similar forces at work in the underground house-church movement in China and certain independent ...

This method of assembly is known today as the ‘house churches’ movement in China. Confronting a landscape marred by nebulous and frequently antagonistic religious policies, some house church leaders ...

Lin was an active member of China’s underground house church movement, discreet religious gatherings often held at private homes that are not linked to state-sponsored religious organizations.

The charge is frequently used against leaders in the house church movement, which operates outside state-sponsored faith groups, and is a crime that Lin denied, according to the Dui Hua Foundation ...

As a pastor, Lin participated in the house church movement, conducting religious gatherings in private homes. “Those who participate in and lead house churches often face intimidation ...