Peter Xu
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Peter Xu is the founder of an Evangelical Christian movement in China
China
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 known as the "New Birth", "All Range", or "Born Again Movement." It is a Chinese house church
Chinese house church
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 Three-Self Patriotic Movement and China Christian Council for Protestant groups and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic...

 movement, unregistered by the Chinese government. In 1997, he was sentenced to three years in prison for his leadership role. He moved to the United States
United States
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 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.

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