China Gospel Fellowship

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,^[1] and is a house church network formed in the province of Henan. It has approximately 5 million members.^[2]

History

The China Gospel Fellowship, or Tanghe Fellowship was founded in the 1980s.^[3]

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.^[4] In 2004, more than 100 leaders of the church were arrested as part of governmental raids against unregistered churches.^[5] 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

• List of the largest Protestant bodies