The group has long had close contacts with China's underground church members.

"Many of them are still going to the underground churches," he said.

During this time, he also continued his active life as a leader of the underground Church.

Part of the money was spent helping the underground Church on the mainland.

Since then he has led an underground church and been detained a dozen times.

Followers of the underground Church continue to be detained, he said.

The underground church was believed to be particularly strong in Slovakia.

During this period he converted to Christianity having met a member of a underground church.

"He loved the underground church in China from the very beginning of his pontificate."

Once a month, they have underground church services at revolving locations across the island.

In some areas, officials ignore the orders from above and tolerate the underground church.

Ron just returned from a trip to Asia to meet with the underground church leadership.

Underground churches were tended to by ministers on the run.

The underground churches provided psychological refuge from the white world.

Nor is there any legal protection for Christians, some of whom meet in underground churches.

You're not -you can't really go to one of the underground churches.

"But they want the underground church for baptism, marriage, the major events of life.

They worship in underground churches that the police try to search out and destroy.

Residents meet in underground churches, as well as open ones.

"I also had the honor of meeting those who attend underground churches in China.

With the crackdown on the underground churches, it would be a noisy area for a while.

Swain said the student shared what it was like belonging to an underground church.

In the northern part of the village and spaced about twenty minutes there was small underground church.

Attending an underground church, she said, could jeopardize the Chinese citizens who attend it.

Probably the biggest underground church outside of America.