The Yoido Full Gospel Church has 800,000 members throughout South Korea and other countries. It claims to be the biggest church in the world. On Sundays, there are services every two hours -- each ...

(RNS) — Cho, who preached a Korean version of the prosperity gospel, ... and it was He who grew Yoido Full Gospel Church to 750,000 members to become the World’s largest church.

Yoido Full Gospel Church will mark its 65th anniversary on May 18. Founded by Rev. Cho Yong-gi in 1958 in a tent, it has grown remarkably over a short period of time, and nowadays draws the ...

North Korean defectors and members of the South Korean church gathered on June 21 at Saejoongang Church in Anyang, Gyeonggi ...

Lee Young-hoon, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, expressed concerns about the pervasive influence of shamanism in all areas of Korea, warning that society is being engulfed by ...

“It’s true that the Rev. Cho did meaningful work for Korean churches,” Lee said. “But in some sense, megachurches in South Korea began with Cho’s Yoido Full Gospel Church.” ...

Cho, an emeritus pastor at Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church — South Korea’s largest — died at a Seoul hospital, where he had been treated since he collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage in ...

Reverend Cho Yong-gi, who founded the biggest South Korean church and a string of popular megachurches, died on Tuesday at the age of 85 in Seoul.. The pastor, better known as David Yonggi Cho or ...

No church has embodied this duality more than Yoido Full Gospel Church, which was started in a tent in 1958 and grew to become the world's largest congregation.

It's Friday night, and Mrs. Eum Y Oh is seated at the front of a long, narrow table, speaking in Korean and commanding respect from a group of 17 teen-agers. Mrs. Oh, the wife of Pastor Sueng ...

LUCKY SEVERSON, correspondent: There are big churches, and then there’s the Yoido Full Gospel Church here in Seoul, South Korea. It’s the mother of megachurches, with the largest congregation ...

The Rev. Lobias Murray, founder of Full Gospel Holy Temple Church in Dallas, began his journey to the ministry in 1956 at a crusade by the evangelist A.A. Allen in Fair Park. The Rev. Lobias ...