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

He became active in the “house church” movement of believers who seek to pray independent of the party-state. For this, Mr. Lin has been wrongfully imprisoned in Beijing for nearly two decades.

one of the leading figures of China’s independent house church movement over the past four decades.

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 ...