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GOOD TV (Chinese: 好消息電視台) (stylized in all uppercase), is a Christian television station in Taiwan. Established in 1997 as a nonprofit organization under Gabriel Evangelical Broadcasting Foundation, it began broadcast on September 9, 1998. The executive director of programming is Pastor Shao-en Koh, and its spokesman was the belated ...
Christianity in Taiwan constituted 3.9% of the population, according to the census of 2005; [1] Christians on the island included approximately 600,000 Protestants, 300,000 Catholics and a small number of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Estimates in 2020 suggested that the portion had risen to 4% or 6%. [2][3][4]
Confucianism is present in Taiwan in the form of many associations and temples and shrines for the worship of Confucius and sages. [39] In 2005, 0.7% of the population of Taiwan adhered to Xuanyuanism, which is a Confucian-based religion worshipping Huangdi as the symbol of God. [40]
Other Christian denominations present include Presbyterians, the True Jesus Church, Baptists, Lutherans, Seventh-day Adventists, and Episcopalians. Approximately 70 percent of the indigenous population of 475,000 Aborigines is Christian. There are also a small number of adherents of Judaism in Taiwan, mainly expatriates.
Taiwan Lutheran Church. The Taiwan Lutheran Church (TLC; Chinese: 台灣信義會; pinyin: Táiwān Xìnyì Huì) is one of the six Lutheran bodies in Taiwan. It currently has 80 mission sites nationwide (including 40 local congregations, 30 church plants and 10 parachurch organizations) with a total of 11,422 baptized members. [2]
By the time of the communist victory in mainland China, Dzao moved his headquarters first to Hong Kong in 1949, [1] before moving it to Taipei, Taiwan in 1954. When Nathaniel Chow (周神助; born 1941) became the senior pastor of the Bread of Life Church in Taipei (1977–2011), the church began have a stronger emphasis on a charismatic ...
In 1514, Taiwan was included in the Diocese of Funchal as a missionary jurisdiction; there was some organized Catholic activity on the island. In 1576, the first Chinese diocese, the Diocese of Macau, was established in Macau, a Portuguese colony, and covered most of China as well as Taiwan. The diocese of Macau was sub-divided several times ...
Taiwanese Christian monks (1 C) P. Taiwanese Protestants (2 C, 10 P) T. Taiwanese theologians (3 P) Pages in category "Taiwanese Christians"