Allen Yuan Xiangchen (1914 – August 16, 2005) was a Chinese Protestant Christian pastor. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth He was a leader among Chinese house churches, and known for his resistance against participation in the state-controlled "Three-Self Patriotic churches". Chinese house churches are a religious movement of unregistered assemblies of Christians in the People's Republic of China, which operate independently of the government-run The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (officially zh-cn 中国基督教三自爱国运动委员会 National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China
Yuan’s ministry began after the Japanese surrender in 1945. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. He was assisted by a Norwegian missionary. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Yuan opened a prayer room in Beijing so that he could preach.
When the government set up the Three Self Patriotic Movement to develop national churches under party control in 1950, a year after the Communist takeover, Yuan and other pastors refused to join. In 1958 he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for "counter-revolutionary crimes".
Voice of the Martyrs quoted him speaking about his imprisonment: "During those years in prison my wife suffered untold hardships in bringing up the children. The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM is the name of several related Christian organizations founded through the influence of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand in such I was sent to near the Russian border doing farm work, growing rice. Wang Ming-Dao [a fellow pastor also sentenced to the camp] and I thought we would die martyrs there. Wang Mingdao ( (1900-1991 was a Chinese Christian Protestant leader . . . "
"In the labor camp it was very cold," he wrote, "food was bad, and the work was hard, but in 22 years I never once got sick. I was thin and wore glasses, but I came back alive; many did not. I also had no Bible for the 22 years and there were no other Protestant Christians there. I met only four Catholic priests. They were in the same situation I was in; they refused to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. "
Yuan was released in 1979 and went back into Christian ministry.
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- Broomhall, Alfred (1989). Alfred James Broomhall ( December 6, 1911 &ndash May 11, 1994) a Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: It Is Not Death To Die. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
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