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The University Bible Fellowship (UBF; Korean: 대학생성경읽기선교회) is an non-denominational New religious movement that originated in South Korea in 1961. It was founded through a partnership between a Korean, Samuel Chang-Woo Lee, and an American Presbyterian missionary who was sent to South Korea, Sarah Barry. UBF has headquarters in Chicago and Seoul. UBF is present at many campuses from American Ivy league schools to small community colleges. The organization's stated goal is student evangelism.〔(Origin ) ( Mission Statement )〕 Some outside observers and former members describe the group as cult-like, excessively controlling, spiritually damaging and/or abusive.〔(Cult Information Services of Northeast Ohio, Inc )〕〔(Concern Group on Newly Emerged Religions (CGNER) )〕〔(NEIRR )〕〔(ARC Apologetics Resource Center )〕 ==History== The UBF movement began in 1961.〔Jun Ki Chung, "The University Bible Fellowship: A Forty-Year Retrospective Evaluation", (''Missiology: An International Review'' ), Vol. XXXI, No.4, October 2003, pp. 474-85〕 An American college student named Sarah Barry had become a Christian and decided to go to Korea as a missionary soon after the Korean War ended. In Korea Barry met Samuel Chang-Woo Lee, who had been studying in a Presbyterian seminary in Seoul. They shared a common goal to "purify Christianity in Korea and find a new vision and hope for Korean intellectuals."〔 They gathered about 80 students from Chun Nam and Chosun Universities to study the English Bible in the Christian Student Center in Kwangju, Korea. In 1964, UBF sent a college graduate named Han-ok Kim to Cheju Island.〔 In the 1980's and 1990's, the group expanded outside of Korea. In Canada and the United States, some universities have restricted UBF's on-campus recruiting efforts, such as University of Illinois,〔 University of Winnipeg,〔Winnipeg Free Press, Vol. 114., No. 322, page 1, Oct. 25 1986〕 University of Guelph, University of Manitoba,〔〔''The Silhouette'' (the student newspaper of McMaster University), February 7, 1991 (Vol. 61, No.22) Page 11〕 and DePaul University.〔WBNS-TV, March 2, 2005〕 UBF is used as one of the case studies in the book ''Churches That Abuse'', published in 1991 by Ronald Enroth about Christian churches and organizations he perceives as "spiritually abusive" and the effects these groups can have on their members.〔Ronald Enroth, ''Churches That Abuse'', Zondervan, 1992〕 In the 2000's, the group continued to expand. As of 2006, UBF had sent 1,463 self-supporting missionaries to more than 80 countries.〔(Korea Research Institute for Missions 2006 )〕 Concerns and questions about the group continued to be raised by universities, newspapers and television reports. For example, in 2003 Wheaton College hosted a conference organized by University Bible Fellowship, prompting a local newspaper to look into serious allegations of the group being spiritually abusive and overly authoritarian.〔Carmen Greco, Jr., "Cult Worries Surround Bible Group", ''Daily Herald'' (Chicago), 21 July 2003〕 In the United States and other countries, serious allegations of excessive control and intrusion into student's lives have been documented.〔Daniel Buckman, ("UIC worries about cult recruitment; three cases this fall" ), ''UIC News'', 12/1/93〕〔Lindsay Saxe, ("Cult-like evangelist group targeted recent JHU undergrads" ) ''The Johns Hopkins Newsletter'', 7 December 2001〕 These concerns have arisen at Canadian and German universities as well as in the United States.〔Greg Reage, "Shepherds no band of simple country folk", The Manitoban, VOL. LXXVIII No.9, PAGE 5, October 3, 1990〕〔Wendy Stephenson, "Cult personality draws people to Fellowship: Ex-Cult Member Still Feels Fear", ''The Winnipeg Sun'', Vol. 10, No.90, Tuesday, April 17, 1990, page 5〕〔Dagmar Blesel, "Er hat eine totalitäre Machtstellung" ("He has a totalitarian power position"), ''Bonner General-Anzeiger'' (daily newspaper in Bonn, Germany), 8/23/2002〕 As of 2015, UBF continues to be on the lists of several cult-watching groups in the United States, such as the Apologetics Index,〔(Apologetics Index )〕 the Rick Ross Institute,〔()〕 the New England Institute of Religious Research,〔 the Apologetics Research Center〔(ARC 1 )〕〔(ARC 2 )〕 and the Cult Information Services of Northeast Ohio, Inc.〔 UBF is also listed on the Freedom of Mind website.〔(Freedom of Mind )〕 In China, UBF is on the examination list of CGNER (Concern Group on Newly Emerged Religions).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University Bible Fellowship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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