Spirit Church (China)

Spirit Church (灵灵教 Linglingjiao) is a new religious movement from China. It was founded in the 1980s, in Jiangsu by Hua Xuehe (华雪和).[1] It has Pentecostal features and was possibly a break-away group from the Chinese Pentecostal group, the True Jesus Church.[2] Its areas of presence include Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Henan and Shandong.[1]

Spirit Church is illegal in China and labelled heretical.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 "China Analysis No. 8" (PDF). Chinapolitik.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
  2. ↑ Anderson, Allan; Tang, Edmond (2006). "Independency in Africa and Asia". In Hugh McLeod. The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 9, World Christianities C.1914-c.2000. Cambridge University Press. pp. 123–124. ISBN 978-0-521-81500-0.
  3. ↑ Danny Schechter. Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice Or "evil Cult"? : a ... Retrieved 2015-03-08.
  4. ↑ Fenggang Yang (2011). Religion in China: Survival and Revival Under Communist Rule. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-19-973564-8.


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