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 ...

Says one Shanghai-based house-church leader, “Every house church movement could be accused of being ‘harmful to society’ simply because we refuse to belong to accredited religious bodies, ...

For example, Wagner cited the “African independent church movement” of the early 20th century and the “Chinese rural house church movement that was around in the mid-1970s.

DALLAS — To get to church on a recent Sunday morning, the Yeldell family walked no farther than their own living room to greet fellow worshippers. The members of this “house church” are part ...

David Lin, an American citizen, became active in the “house church” movement in China. For this, he has been wrongfully imprisoned in Beijing for nearly two decades.

Accusations are frequently used to target leaders of China's house church movement, which operates outside state-sponsored religious organizations. In China, ...

"Before his imprisonment, Pastor Lin was active in Beijing’s house church movement, which has long-faced hostility from Chinese authorities," the USCIRF said in a 2019 statement.

DALLAS - To get to church on a recent Sunday morning, the Yeldell family walked no farther than their own living room to greet fellow worshippers. The members of this "house church" are part of ...