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, and is a house church network formed in the province of Henan. It has approximately 5 million members.
History
The China Gospel Fellowship, or Tanghe Fellowship was founded in the 1980s.
In 2002, Eastern Lightning, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, allegedly kidnapped 34 of the Fellowship's leading members and held them for two months. In 2004, more than 100 leaders of the church were arrested as part of governmental raids against unregistered churches. Sources consider it to be among 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.
See also
References
- Xi Lian (23 February 2010). Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. Yale University Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-300-12339-5. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
- Aikman, David (1 November 2006). Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power. Regnery Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-59698-025-9. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
- Jie Kang, House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors, Springer, 2016, p. 74 n. 2.
- Aikman (2012), p. 81, 367.
- Foxe, John (1 April 2007). Foxe: Voices of the Martyrs. Bridge Logos Foundation. p. 423. ISBN 978-0-88270-330-5. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
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