Peter Xu

Peter Xu

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name = Peter Xu


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birth_place = China
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occupation = Chinese house church leader
religion = Christian - Born Again Movement (China)
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Peter Xu (born Xu Yongze) is the founder of an Evangelical Christian movement in China variously called "New Birth", "All Range", or "Total Scope Church." It is an "unregistered" Chinese house church and in 1997 he was sentenced to three years of prison for running it [cite web|title= China's Christians suffer for their faith|publisher=BBC News|date=November 9,2004|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3993857.stm.|accessdate=2008-05-06] . After that he moved to the USA and was one of the subjects of the book Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission by Paul Hattaway.

External links

* [http://www.house.gov/pitts/initiatives/humanrights/prisoners/xu.htm House.gov]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3993857.stm BBC article]
* [http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/news/bn1999/bn-1999-04-08.htm Freedomhouse]


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