1.   Underground churches and unorthodox sects are gaining in popularity as Communist ideology loses its appeal.

2.   But the underground church also increases dramatically.

3.   He recently returned from China, where he smuggled matchbook-size Bibles to underground Christian churches.

4.   In recent years, while fines and temporary detention have been used to harass underground churches, relatively few leaders are known to have been formally charged and jailed.

5.   Millions of Chinese attend the underground churches.

6.   The majority of the practicing polygamists in the West are associated with one of several underground churches that split from the church over the polygamy issue earlier this century.

7.   The pastor of an underground church in Ukraine, he worked as a construction engineer by day and prayed in secret by night.

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

9.   Today missionary work is banned and worship can be risky, yet underground churches are booming.

10.   Underground churches, however, have been subjected to a rising wave of police raids and arrests.