Sentence examples for an underground church from inspiring English sources

For an "underground" church it was very rowdy.

Comment on the work of an underground church in Akron, O., called Alice's Restaurant.

My friend Jing is a member of an underground church, and celebrates by throwing a party at her home.

Many of the pilgrims are loyal to an underground church which claims closer ties with Rome than the state-approved Catholic church.

By Donald Malcolm The New Yorker, January 10 , 1970 P. 15Comment on the work of an underground church in Akron, O., called Alice's Restaurant.

The New Yorker, January 10 , 1970 P. 15Comment on the work of an underground church in Akron, O., called Alice's Restaurant.

BEIJING — More than a dozen Christian leaders in China have thrown their support behind an embattled underground church, calling for the government to end its persecution and for broader religious freedoms as well.

There is a widespread "underground" church structure in China that is loyal to Rome and thus suspected by the authorities of disloyalty to China.

In August, however, China released a bishop loyal to the underground church, An Shuxin, who had been arrested a decade earlier after leading celebrations of the feast of Mary in Donglu.An even more tentative rapprochement is under way with the Dalai Lama.

Others questioned the existence of a large-scale underground church or concluded that it was impossible to estimate accurately the number of underground religious believers.

The Chinese Communist Party oversees an official community, known as the Patriotic Association and believed to number about 12 million people, but there is also a much larger underground Church that is loyal to the Pope.