Peter Xu

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Peter Xu
Born	China
Nationality	chinese
Education	Longfellow
Occupation	Chinese house church leader
Religion	Christian, Born Again Movement

Peter Xu (born Xu Yongze) is the founder of an Evangelical Christian movement in China known as the "New Birth", "All Range", or "Born Again Movement." It is a Chinese house church movement, unregistered by the Chinese government. In 1997, he was sentenced to three years in prison for his leadership role.^[1] He moved to the United States following his release.

He is 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.

References

↑ "China's Christians suffer for their faith". News. BBC. November 9, 2004. Retrieved 2010-11-11.

External links

"Xu", Human rights: prisoners, US: House of Representatives .
"World: AsiaPacific", News (article), UK: BBC .
Religion (news), Freedom house, 1999-04-08

Persondata
Name	Xu, Peter
Alternative names
Short description	Chinese house church leader
Date of birth
Place of birth	China
Date of death
Place of death

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