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These Younger churches vary widely in degree of independence and autonomy spiritual and economic maturity and strength of indigenous leadershipD We have not attempted to list the missionary agency or agencies with which each indigenous church group has been associated] since such material can be found elsewhere and the purpose of this study is to emphasize the emerging responsible church bodies in their various stages of growth Exact statistics of membership are always difficult to seshycure and when available may be interpreted in different ways We have attempted to give only round numbers based upon the most recent data available in the Missionary Research Library Membership means adult baptized members and does not include baptized children Corrununity means members and their families and] also cateshychumens or inquirers We realize that the statistics are not fully reliable but we believe that they will furnish a fair picture of the Younger Church movement Under the heading Missionaries from the Younger Churches] we have surrunarized such inshyformation as we could secure regarding missionaries being sent out from younger church bodies to other countries and peoples This is a most significant new deshyvelopment
Church bodies which are members of the World Council of Churches are marked 0
We hope that this List of Younger Churches will be of help to all who are studyshying the growth of world-wide Christianity We would be glad to receive corrections and suggestions for revision
We wish to thank all who have helped in the preparation of this Study and those who have read the manuscript in whole or in part D Mr Kenyon Eo Moyer Research Assistant in the Missionary Research Library has given valuable assistance in edit-middot ing and typing D
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THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS AND THE GUIANAS
Bahamas (Bahama Islands) (British West Indies)
POPULATION 100000 one-fifth white four-fifth colored English-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Main religion of the twenty inhabited islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nassau
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of West Indies Diocese of Nassauo About 7000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church About 3000 members
Church of God About 4000 members
Baptist Churches independent Baptist unions About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 400 members
Other small church groups founded by interdenominational societies
Cuba (Republic of Cuba)
POPULATION 6 million Spanish-speaking English widely understood
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Membership small but vital and growing Protestant community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Cubano do iglesio evangelicas (Council of Evangelical Churches) Six member church bodies Methodist Episcopal Presbyterian Baptist Friends Salvation Army Council is member of 1oMC o
with one voting representative (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Cuba (Associate member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Episcopal (Episcopal Church) About 7500 members
Iglesia Metodista (Methodist Church) Cuba Annual Conference (formed 1923) 3 districts About 10000 members
Iglesia Presbiteriana (Presbyterian Church) Presbytery of Cuba (Synod of New Jersey) About 3500 members
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Convenci6n Bautista de Cuba Oriental (Baptist Convention of East Cuba) About 7000 members
Baptist Churches of West Cuba About 8000 members
Iglesia Los Amigos (Friends Cuba Annual Meeting) About 1000 memberS 4
Seventh Day Adventist Church East and West Cuba Conferences About 5000 members
Assemblies of God in Cuba About 4000 members~
Pentecostal Evangelical Church Several thousand members and adherents~
Other church groups Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod indigenous churches founded by West Indies Mission (2000 members) etc
Dominican Republic
POPULATION 2~ million majority mixed African and Spanish ancestry official language Spanish English widely understood
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Dominicana (Evangelical Church of Dominican RepUblic) About 2000 members A union of Presbyterian Methodist and Evangelical Brethren churches
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church~ About 2000 members
Free Methodist Church About 1000 members
Assa~blies of God~ About 2000 members
Pentecostal churches
Scattered churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies
The Guianas
British Guiana (British Colony)
POPULATION 500000 mixed population Negroes (38 per cent) immigrants from East Indies (42 per cent) Europeans Indians official language English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Ministers Association
YOUNGER CHURCHES~
Church in the Province of the West Indies Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) About 22000 members
Congregational Union of British Guiana About 4000 members
Methodist Church About 6000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in British Guiana Formed in 1943 Includes Europeans Community of 7000
Presbyterian Church About 1200 members
The Moravian Church About 600 members
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 4000 member-a
Assemblies of God About 900 members~
Pentecostal groups Pilgrim Holiness Churches Salvation Army Baptists Church of the Nazarene and other small groups
French Guiana and West Indies (Martinique Guadeloupe)
POPULATION French Guiana 30000 Martinique 250000 Guadeloupe 250000 People French ancestry Negroes and Indians Office language French some Indian dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Small number of Anglicans belonging to Diocese of Guiana
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Netherlands Guiana (Surinam) and the Netherlands Antilles (Quracao Aruba Bonaire St Eustatius Saba St Martin (Dutch port)
POPULATION Netherlands Guiana 225000 Netherlands West Indies 200000 Negroes Europeans East Indians and others Official language is Dutch Spanish and English also spoken
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian mission churches About 45000 community of 140000
Reformed Church About 10000 members (mostly Dutch)~
Churches in Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) See British Guiana
Churches founded by Negro Societies from USA
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventists Baptists Pilgrim Holiness Salvation Army
Haiti (Republic of Haiti)
POPULATION 3 million largely Negro Main languages French and Creole French o
English taught in schools
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Roman Catholicism is the main religion but Protestant churches are active and growing Protestant community over 200000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Jacmel Baptist Church About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 20000 members
Church of God~ About 10000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 15000 members
Methodist Church About 2000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Pentecostal and Uevangelical Jl churches Several thousand members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies several thousand members
Puerto Rico (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico USA)
POPULATION 2~ million languages Spanish chiefly and English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Still a minority religion but growing in importance and influence Protestant community of about 250 )000 ~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico de Puerto Rico (Evangelical Council of Puerto Rico) includes Baptists Methodists Mennonites Presbyterians Disciples United Evangelicals and Friends o
Member of the IMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
La Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Pentecostal Church of God) or Assemblies of God) About 13000 members and growing r apidly
Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico a union of Congregational-Christian and United Brethren church bodies) Membership about 53000
Presbyterian Church Presbytery of Puerto Rico (Synod of New York) About 5000 membersr
Baptist Convention About 8000 members
Disciples of Christ Church Church has new constitution more responsibilityo About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 5000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventists Puerto Rico Conference About 4J OOO members o
Other small groups Church of God Mennonite Church Pilgrim Holiness Church Pentacostal churches Lutheran Church Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Church of the Nazarene
The West Indies (British)
A British Caribbean Federation will become a self-governing member of the Commonwealth in 1958 (comprising Jan~ica Trinidad Tobago~ Barbados Windward Islands and Leeward Islands but not British Virgin Islands and Bahamas)
Jamaica (Including Turks Caicos and Cayman Islands)
POPULATION l~ million three-fourths Negroes~ remainder are mulattoes y
Europeans East Indians and Chinese language - English ~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant faith
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Jamaica Christian Council includes most church bodies on the island Member of IoMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Kingston (Jamaica) Church in the Province of West Indies (Anglican) About 35000 members including Europeans
Jamaican Baptist Union About 240 churches and 23000 members
The Presbyterian Church of Jamaica~ About 12000 members
Congregational Union of Jamaica o About 4000 members~
The Methodist Church Jamaica District About 17000 members~
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders Conference About 5000 members
The Disciples of Christ~r About 5000 members
(The latter five church bodies are considering union)
Assemblies of God in Jamaica 35 churches and about 1300 members Associated with 21 independent Pentecostal churches p
The Church of God About 5000 members (20000 reported under Missionary Board)
Seventh Day Adventists East and West Jamaica Conferences About 23000 members
Society of Friends Yearly Meeting About l~OOO members
Several other groups Pentecostal Open Bible Standard Churches Pilgrim Holiness Brethren etc Few thousand members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Jamaican Home and Foreign Missionary Society sends missionaries to French Guinea~
Other Islands
POPULATION Barbados 200000~ Trinidad (including Tobago) 600 000 0 Windward Islands (Grenada Grenadines Dominica St Vincent St Lucia) 300000 Leeward Islands (Antigua Barbuda Redonda St Christopher Nevis Anguilla Monserrat Sombrero British Virgin Islands) 110000 People European West Indian and Negro Language EnglLsh
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation of Evangelical Churches of Trinidad and Tobago
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION p
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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Catholic is national church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION o
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
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Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS AND THE GUIANAS
Bahamas (Bahama Islands) (British West Indies)
POPULATION 100000 one-fifth white four-fifth colored English-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Main religion of the twenty inhabited islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nassau
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of West Indies Diocese of Nassauo About 7000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church About 3000 members
Church of God About 4000 members
Baptist Churches independent Baptist unions About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 400 members
Other small church groups founded by interdenominational societies
Cuba (Republic of Cuba)
POPULATION 6 million Spanish-speaking English widely understood
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Membership small but vital and growing Protestant community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Cubano do iglesio evangelicas (Council of Evangelical Churches) Six member church bodies Methodist Episcopal Presbyterian Baptist Friends Salvation Army Council is member of 1oMC o
with one voting representative (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Cuba (Associate member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Episcopal (Episcopal Church) About 7500 members
Iglesia Metodista (Methodist Church) Cuba Annual Conference (formed 1923) 3 districts About 10000 members
Iglesia Presbiteriana (Presbyterian Church) Presbytery of Cuba (Synod of New Jersey) About 3500 members
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Convenci6n Bautista de Cuba Oriental (Baptist Convention of East Cuba) About 7000 members
Baptist Churches of West Cuba About 8000 members
Iglesia Los Amigos (Friends Cuba Annual Meeting) About 1000 memberS 4
Seventh Day Adventist Church East and West Cuba Conferences About 5000 members
Assemblies of God in Cuba About 4000 members~
Pentecostal Evangelical Church Several thousand members and adherents~
Other church groups Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod indigenous churches founded by West Indies Mission (2000 members) etc
Dominican Republic
POPULATION 2~ million majority mixed African and Spanish ancestry official language Spanish English widely understood
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Dominicana (Evangelical Church of Dominican RepUblic) About 2000 members A union of Presbyterian Methodist and Evangelical Brethren churches
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church~ About 2000 members
Free Methodist Church About 1000 members
Assa~blies of God~ About 2000 members
Pentecostal churches
Scattered churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies
The Guianas
British Guiana (British Colony)
POPULATION 500000 mixed population Negroes (38 per cent) immigrants from East Indies (42 per cent) Europeans Indians official language English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Ministers Association
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Church in the Province of the West Indies Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) About 22000 members
Congregational Union of British Guiana About 4000 members
Methodist Church About 6000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in British Guiana Formed in 1943 Includes Europeans Community of 7000
Presbyterian Church About 1200 members
The Moravian Church About 600 members
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 4000 member-a
Assemblies of God About 900 members~
Pentecostal groups Pilgrim Holiness Churches Salvation Army Baptists Church of the Nazarene and other small groups
French Guiana and West Indies (Martinique Guadeloupe)
POPULATION French Guiana 30000 Martinique 250000 Guadeloupe 250000 People French ancestry Negroes and Indians Office language French some Indian dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Anglicans belonging to Diocese of Guiana
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Netherlands Guiana (Surinam) and the Netherlands Antilles (Quracao Aruba Bonaire St Eustatius Saba St Martin (Dutch port)
POPULATION Netherlands Guiana 225000 Netherlands West Indies 200000 Negroes Europeans East Indians and others Official language is Dutch Spanish and English also spoken
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Moravian mission churches About 45000 community of 140000
Reformed Church About 10000 members (mostly Dutch)~
Churches in Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) See British Guiana
Churches founded by Negro Societies from USA
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventists Baptists Pilgrim Holiness Salvation Army
Haiti (Republic of Haiti)
POPULATION 3 million largely Negro Main languages French and Creole French o
English taught in schools
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Roman Catholicism is the main religion but Protestant churches are active and growing Protestant community over 200000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Jacmel Baptist Church About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 20000 members
Church of God~ About 10000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 15000 members
Methodist Church About 2000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Pentecostal and Uevangelical Jl churches Several thousand members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies several thousand members
Puerto Rico (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico USA)
POPULATION 2~ million languages Spanish chiefly and English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Still a minority religion but growing in importance and influence Protestant community of about 250 )000 ~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico de Puerto Rico (Evangelical Council of Puerto Rico) includes Baptists Methodists Mennonites Presbyterians Disciples United Evangelicals and Friends o
Member of the IMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
La Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Pentecostal Church of God) or Assemblies of God) About 13000 members and growing r apidly
Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico a union of Congregational-Christian and United Brethren church bodies) Membership about 53000
Presbyterian Church Presbytery of Puerto Rico (Synod of New York) About 5000 membersr
Baptist Convention About 8000 members
Disciples of Christ Church Church has new constitution more responsibilityo About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 5000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventists Puerto Rico Conference About 4J OOO members o
Other small groups Church of God Mennonite Church Pilgrim Holiness Church Pentacostal churches Lutheran Church Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Church of the Nazarene
The West Indies (British)
A British Caribbean Federation will become a self-governing member of the Commonwealth in 1958 (comprising Jan~ica Trinidad Tobago~ Barbados Windward Islands and Leeward Islands but not British Virgin Islands and Bahamas)
Jamaica (Including Turks Caicos and Cayman Islands)
POPULATION l~ million three-fourths Negroes~ remainder are mulattoes y
Europeans East Indians and Chinese language - English ~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant faith
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Jamaica Christian Council includes most church bodies on the island Member of IoMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Kingston (Jamaica) Church in the Province of West Indies (Anglican) About 35000 members including Europeans
Jamaican Baptist Union About 240 churches and 23000 members
The Presbyterian Church of Jamaica~ About 12000 members
Congregational Union of Jamaica o About 4000 members~
The Methodist Church Jamaica District About 17000 members~
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders Conference About 5000 members
The Disciples of Christ~r About 5000 members
(The latter five church bodies are considering union)
Assemblies of God in Jamaica 35 churches and about 1300 members Associated with 21 independent Pentecostal churches p
The Church of God About 5000 members (20000 reported under Missionary Board)
Seventh Day Adventists East and West Jamaica Conferences About 23000 members
Society of Friends Yearly Meeting About l~OOO members
Several other groups Pentecostal Open Bible Standard Churches Pilgrim Holiness Brethren etc Few thousand members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Jamaican Home and Foreign Missionary Society sends missionaries to French Guinea~
Other Islands
POPULATION Barbados 200000~ Trinidad (including Tobago) 600 000 0 Windward Islands (Grenada Grenadines Dominica St Vincent St Lucia) 300000 Leeward Islands (Antigua Barbuda Redonda St Christopher Nevis Anguilla Monserrat Sombrero British Virgin Islands) 110000 People European West Indian and Negro Language EnglLsh
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation of Evangelical Churches of Trinidad and Tobago
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Convenci6n Bautista de Cuba Oriental (Baptist Convention of East Cuba) About 7000 members
Baptist Churches of West Cuba About 8000 members
Iglesia Los Amigos (Friends Cuba Annual Meeting) About 1000 memberS 4
Seventh Day Adventist Church East and West Cuba Conferences About 5000 members
Assemblies of God in Cuba About 4000 members~
Pentecostal Evangelical Church Several thousand members and adherents~
Other church groups Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod indigenous churches founded by West Indies Mission (2000 members) etc
Dominican Republic
POPULATION 2~ million majority mixed African and Spanish ancestry official language Spanish English widely understood
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Dominicana (Evangelical Church of Dominican RepUblic) About 2000 members A union of Presbyterian Methodist and Evangelical Brethren churches
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church~ About 2000 members
Free Methodist Church About 1000 members
Assa~blies of God~ About 2000 members
Pentecostal churches
Scattered churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies
The Guianas
British Guiana (British Colony)
POPULATION 500000 mixed population Negroes (38 per cent) immigrants from East Indies (42 per cent) Europeans Indians official language English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Ministers Association
YOUNGER CHURCHES~
Church in the Province of the West Indies Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) About 22000 members
Congregational Union of British Guiana About 4000 members
Methodist Church About 6000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in British Guiana Formed in 1943 Includes Europeans Community of 7000
Presbyterian Church About 1200 members
The Moravian Church About 600 members
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 4000 member-a
Assemblies of God About 900 members~
Pentecostal groups Pilgrim Holiness Churches Salvation Army Baptists Church of the Nazarene and other small groups
French Guiana and West Indies (Martinique Guadeloupe)
POPULATION French Guiana 30000 Martinique 250000 Guadeloupe 250000 People French ancestry Negroes and Indians Office language French some Indian dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Anglicans belonging to Diocese of Guiana
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Netherlands Guiana (Surinam) and the Netherlands Antilles (Quracao Aruba Bonaire St Eustatius Saba St Martin (Dutch port)
POPULATION Netherlands Guiana 225000 Netherlands West Indies 200000 Negroes Europeans East Indians and others Official language is Dutch Spanish and English also spoken
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian mission churches About 45000 community of 140000
Reformed Church About 10000 members (mostly Dutch)~
Churches in Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) See British Guiana
Churches founded by Negro Societies from USA
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventists Baptists Pilgrim Holiness Salvation Army
Haiti (Republic of Haiti)
POPULATION 3 million largely Negro Main languages French and Creole French o
English taught in schools
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Roman Catholicism is the main religion but Protestant churches are active and growing Protestant community over 200000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Jacmel Baptist Church About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 20000 members
Church of God~ About 10000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 15000 members
Methodist Church About 2000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Pentecostal and Uevangelical Jl churches Several thousand members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies several thousand members
Puerto Rico (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico USA)
POPULATION 2~ million languages Spanish chiefly and English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Still a minority religion but growing in importance and influence Protestant community of about 250 )000 ~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico de Puerto Rico (Evangelical Council of Puerto Rico) includes Baptists Methodists Mennonites Presbyterians Disciples United Evangelicals and Friends o
Member of the IMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
La Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Pentecostal Church of God) or Assemblies of God) About 13000 members and growing r apidly
Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico a union of Congregational-Christian and United Brethren church bodies) Membership about 53000
Presbyterian Church Presbytery of Puerto Rico (Synod of New York) About 5000 membersr
Baptist Convention About 8000 members
Disciples of Christ Church Church has new constitution more responsibilityo About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 5000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventists Puerto Rico Conference About 4J OOO members o
Other small groups Church of God Mennonite Church Pilgrim Holiness Church Pentacostal churches Lutheran Church Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Church of the Nazarene
The West Indies (British)
A British Caribbean Federation will become a self-governing member of the Commonwealth in 1958 (comprising Jan~ica Trinidad Tobago~ Barbados Windward Islands and Leeward Islands but not British Virgin Islands and Bahamas)
Jamaica (Including Turks Caicos and Cayman Islands)
POPULATION l~ million three-fourths Negroes~ remainder are mulattoes y
Europeans East Indians and Chinese language - English ~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant faith
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Jamaica Christian Council includes most church bodies on the island Member of IoMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Kingston (Jamaica) Church in the Province of West Indies (Anglican) About 35000 members including Europeans
Jamaican Baptist Union About 240 churches and 23000 members
The Presbyterian Church of Jamaica~ About 12000 members
Congregational Union of Jamaica o About 4000 members~
The Methodist Church Jamaica District About 17000 members~
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders Conference About 5000 members
The Disciples of Christ~r About 5000 members
(The latter five church bodies are considering union)
Assemblies of God in Jamaica 35 churches and about 1300 members Associated with 21 independent Pentecostal churches p
The Church of God About 5000 members (20000 reported under Missionary Board)
Seventh Day Adventists East and West Jamaica Conferences About 23000 members
Society of Friends Yearly Meeting About l~OOO members
Several other groups Pentecostal Open Bible Standard Churches Pilgrim Holiness Brethren etc Few thousand members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Jamaican Home and Foreign Missionary Society sends missionaries to French Guinea~
Other Islands
POPULATION Barbados 200000~ Trinidad (including Tobago) 600 000 0 Windward Islands (Grenada Grenadines Dominica St Vincent St Lucia) 300000 Leeward Islands (Antigua Barbuda Redonda St Christopher Nevis Anguilla Monserrat Sombrero British Virgin Islands) 110000 People European West Indian and Negro Language EnglLsh
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation of Evangelical Churches of Trinidad and Tobago
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
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Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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Catholic is national church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Ministers Association
YOUNGER CHURCHES~
Church in the Province of the West Indies Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) About 22000 members
Congregational Union of British Guiana About 4000 members
Methodist Church About 6000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in British Guiana Formed in 1943 Includes Europeans Community of 7000
Presbyterian Church About 1200 members
The Moravian Church About 600 members
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 4000 member-a
Assemblies of God About 900 members~
Pentecostal groups Pilgrim Holiness Churches Salvation Army Baptists Church of the Nazarene and other small groups
French Guiana and West Indies (Martinique Guadeloupe)
POPULATION French Guiana 30000 Martinique 250000 Guadeloupe 250000 People French ancestry Negroes and Indians Office language French some Indian dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Small number of Anglicans belonging to Diocese of Guiana
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Netherlands Guiana (Surinam) and the Netherlands Antilles (Quracao Aruba Bonaire St Eustatius Saba St Martin (Dutch port)
POPULATION Netherlands Guiana 225000 Netherlands West Indies 200000 Negroes Europeans East Indians and others Official language is Dutch Spanish and English also spoken
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Moravian mission churches About 45000 community of 140000
Reformed Church About 10000 members (mostly Dutch)~
Churches in Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) See British Guiana
Churches founded by Negro Societies from USA
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventists Baptists Pilgrim Holiness Salvation Army
Haiti (Republic of Haiti)
POPULATION 3 million largely Negro Main languages French and Creole French o
English taught in schools
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Roman Catholicism is the main religion but Protestant churches are active and growing Protestant community over 200000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Jacmel Baptist Church About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 20000 members
Church of God~ About 10000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 15000 members
Methodist Church About 2000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Pentecostal and Uevangelical Jl churches Several thousand members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies several thousand members
Puerto Rico (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico USA)
POPULATION 2~ million languages Spanish chiefly and English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Still a minority religion but growing in importance and influence Protestant community of about 250 )000 ~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico de Puerto Rico (Evangelical Council of Puerto Rico) includes Baptists Methodists Mennonites Presbyterians Disciples United Evangelicals and Friends o
Member of the IMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
La Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Pentecostal Church of God) or Assemblies of God) About 13000 members and growing r apidly
Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico a union of Congregational-Christian and United Brethren church bodies) Membership about 53000
Presbyterian Church Presbytery of Puerto Rico (Synod of New York) About 5000 membersr
Baptist Convention About 8000 members
Disciples of Christ Church Church has new constitution more responsibilityo About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 5000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventists Puerto Rico Conference About 4J OOO members o
Other small groups Church of God Mennonite Church Pilgrim Holiness Church Pentacostal churches Lutheran Church Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Church of the Nazarene
The West Indies (British)
A British Caribbean Federation will become a self-governing member of the Commonwealth in 1958 (comprising Jan~ica Trinidad Tobago~ Barbados Windward Islands and Leeward Islands but not British Virgin Islands and Bahamas)
Jamaica (Including Turks Caicos and Cayman Islands)
POPULATION l~ million three-fourths Negroes~ remainder are mulattoes y
Europeans East Indians and Chinese language - English ~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant faith
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Jamaica Christian Council includes most church bodies on the island Member of IoMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Kingston (Jamaica) Church in the Province of West Indies (Anglican) About 35000 members including Europeans
Jamaican Baptist Union About 240 churches and 23000 members
The Presbyterian Church of Jamaica~ About 12000 members
Congregational Union of Jamaica o About 4000 members~
The Methodist Church Jamaica District About 17000 members~
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders Conference About 5000 members
The Disciples of Christ~r About 5000 members
(The latter five church bodies are considering union)
Assemblies of God in Jamaica 35 churches and about 1300 members Associated with 21 independent Pentecostal churches p
The Church of God About 5000 members (20000 reported under Missionary Board)
Seventh Day Adventists East and West Jamaica Conferences About 23000 members
Society of Friends Yearly Meeting About l~OOO members
Several other groups Pentecostal Open Bible Standard Churches Pilgrim Holiness Brethren etc Few thousand members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Jamaican Home and Foreign Missionary Society sends missionaries to French Guinea~
Other Islands
POPULATION Barbados 200000~ Trinidad (including Tobago) 600 000 0 Windward Islands (Grenada Grenadines Dominica St Vincent St Lucia) 300000 Leeward Islands (Antigua Barbuda Redonda St Christopher Nevis Anguilla Monserrat Sombrero British Virgin Islands) 110000 People European West Indian and Negro Language EnglLsh
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation of Evangelical Churches of Trinidad and Tobago
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
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Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
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Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Moravian mission churches About 45000 community of 140000
Reformed Church About 10000 members (mostly Dutch)~
Churches in Diocese of Guiana (Anglican) See British Guiana
Churches founded by Negro Societies from USA
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventists Baptists Pilgrim Holiness Salvation Army
Haiti (Republic of Haiti)
POPULATION 3 million largely Negro Main languages French and Creole French o
English taught in schools
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Roman Catholicism is the main religion but Protestant churches are active and growing Protestant community over 200000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Jacmel Baptist Church About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 20000 members
Church of God~ About 10000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 15000 members
Methodist Church About 2000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Pentecostal and Uevangelical Jl churches Several thousand members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies several thousand members
Puerto Rico (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico USA)
POPULATION 2~ million languages Spanish chiefly and English
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Still a minority religion but growing in importance and influence Protestant community of about 250 )000 ~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico de Puerto Rico (Evangelical Council of Puerto Rico) includes Baptists Methodists Mennonites Presbyterians Disciples United Evangelicals and Friends o
Member of the IMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
La Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Pentecostal Church of God) or Assemblies of God) About 13000 members and growing r apidly
Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico a union of Congregational-Christian and United Brethren church bodies) Membership about 53000
Presbyterian Church Presbytery of Puerto Rico (Synod of New York) About 5000 membersr
Baptist Convention About 8000 members
Disciples of Christ Church Church has new constitution more responsibilityo About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 5000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventists Puerto Rico Conference About 4J OOO members o
Other small groups Church of God Mennonite Church Pilgrim Holiness Church Pentacostal churches Lutheran Church Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Church of the Nazarene
The West Indies (British)
A British Caribbean Federation will become a self-governing member of the Commonwealth in 1958 (comprising Jan~ica Trinidad Tobago~ Barbados Windward Islands and Leeward Islands but not British Virgin Islands and Bahamas)
Jamaica (Including Turks Caicos and Cayman Islands)
POPULATION l~ million three-fourths Negroes~ remainder are mulattoes y
Europeans East Indians and Chinese language - English ~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant faith
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Jamaica Christian Council includes most church bodies on the island Member of IoMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Kingston (Jamaica) Church in the Province of West Indies (Anglican) About 35000 members including Europeans
Jamaican Baptist Union About 240 churches and 23000 members
The Presbyterian Church of Jamaica~ About 12000 members
Congregational Union of Jamaica o About 4000 members~
The Methodist Church Jamaica District About 17000 members~
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders Conference About 5000 members
The Disciples of Christ~r About 5000 members
(The latter five church bodies are considering union)
Assemblies of God in Jamaica 35 churches and about 1300 members Associated with 21 independent Pentecostal churches p
The Church of God About 5000 members (20000 reported under Missionary Board)
Seventh Day Adventists East and West Jamaica Conferences About 23000 members
Society of Friends Yearly Meeting About l~OOO members
Several other groups Pentecostal Open Bible Standard Churches Pilgrim Holiness Brethren etc Few thousand members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Jamaican Home and Foreign Missionary Society sends missionaries to French Guinea~
Other Islands
POPULATION Barbados 200000~ Trinidad (including Tobago) 600 000 0 Windward Islands (Grenada Grenadines Dominica St Vincent St Lucia) 300000 Leeward Islands (Antigua Barbuda Redonda St Christopher Nevis Anguilla Monserrat Sombrero British Virgin Islands) 110000 People European West Indian and Negro Language EnglLsh
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation of Evangelical Churches of Trinidad and Tobago
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
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Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION o
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Still a minority religion but growing in importance and influence Protestant community of about 250 )000 ~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico de Puerto Rico (Evangelical Council of Puerto Rico) includes Baptists Methodists Mennonites Presbyterians Disciples United Evangelicals and Friends o
Member of the IMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
La Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Pentecostal Church of God) or Assemblies of God) About 13000 members and growing r apidly
Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Puerto Rico (United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico a union of Congregational-Christian and United Brethren church bodies) Membership about 53000
Presbyterian Church Presbytery of Puerto Rico (Synod of New York) About 5000 membersr
Baptist Convention About 8000 members
Disciples of Christ Church Church has new constitution more responsibilityo About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 5000 members
Protestant Episcopal Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventists Puerto Rico Conference About 4J OOO members o
Other small groups Church of God Mennonite Church Pilgrim Holiness Church Pentacostal churches Lutheran Church Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Church of the Nazarene
The West Indies (British)
A British Caribbean Federation will become a self-governing member of the Commonwealth in 1958 (comprising Jan~ica Trinidad Tobago~ Barbados Windward Islands and Leeward Islands but not British Virgin Islands and Bahamas)
Jamaica (Including Turks Caicos and Cayman Islands)
POPULATION l~ million three-fourths Negroes~ remainder are mulattoes y
Europeans East Indians and Chinese language - English ~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant faith
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Jamaica Christian Council includes most church bodies on the island Member of IoMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Kingston (Jamaica) Church in the Province of West Indies (Anglican) About 35000 members including Europeans
Jamaican Baptist Union About 240 churches and 23000 members
The Presbyterian Church of Jamaica~ About 12000 members
Congregational Union of Jamaica o About 4000 members~
The Methodist Church Jamaica District About 17000 members~
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders Conference About 5000 members
The Disciples of Christ~r About 5000 members
(The latter five church bodies are considering union)
Assemblies of God in Jamaica 35 churches and about 1300 members Associated with 21 independent Pentecostal churches p
The Church of God About 5000 members (20000 reported under Missionary Board)
Seventh Day Adventists East and West Jamaica Conferences About 23000 members
Society of Friends Yearly Meeting About l~OOO members
Several other groups Pentecostal Open Bible Standard Churches Pilgrim Holiness Brethren etc Few thousand members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Jamaican Home and Foreign Missionary Society sends missionaries to French Guinea~
Other Islands
POPULATION Barbados 200000~ Trinidad (including Tobago) 600 000 0 Windward Islands (Grenada Grenadines Dominica St Vincent St Lucia) 300000 Leeward Islands (Antigua Barbuda Redonda St Christopher Nevis Anguilla Monserrat Sombrero British Virgin Islands) 110000 People European West Indian and Negro Language EnglLsh
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation of Evangelical Churches of Trinidad and Tobago
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION p
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Jamaica Christian Council includes most church bodies on the island Member of IoMC with one representative
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Kingston (Jamaica) Church in the Province of West Indies (Anglican) About 35000 members including Europeans
Jamaican Baptist Union About 240 churches and 23000 members
The Presbyterian Church of Jamaica~ About 12000 members
Congregational Union of Jamaica o About 4000 members~
The Methodist Church Jamaica District About 17000 members~
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders Conference About 5000 members
The Disciples of Christ~r About 5000 members
(The latter five church bodies are considering union)
Assemblies of God in Jamaica 35 churches and about 1300 members Associated with 21 independent Pentecostal churches p
The Church of God About 5000 members (20000 reported under Missionary Board)
Seventh Day Adventists East and West Jamaica Conferences About 23000 members
Society of Friends Yearly Meeting About l~OOO members
Several other groups Pentecostal Open Bible Standard Churches Pilgrim Holiness Brethren etc Few thousand members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Jamaican Home and Foreign Missionary Society sends missionaries to French Guinea~
Other Islands
POPULATION Barbados 200000~ Trinidad (including Tobago) 600 000 0 Windward Islands (Grenada Grenadines Dominica St Vincent St Lucia) 300000 Leeward Islands (Antigua Barbuda Redonda St Christopher Nevis Anguilla Monserrat Sombrero British Virgin Islands) 110000 People European West Indian and Negro Language EnglLsh
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Dominant religion
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation of Evangelical Churches of Trinidad and Tobago
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION p
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church in the Province of the West Indies (Anglican) Member of WoCC Diocese of Antigua About 10000 members Diocese of Barbados About 25000 members Diocese of Windward Islands About 11000 members Diocese of Trinidad About 18000 members Diocese of Nassau (Bahamas)
The Moravian Church Provisional Elders 7 Conference About 6000 members
Methodist Church About 20000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 5000 membersbull
Seventh Day Adventist Churches About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church in Trinidad About 4000 members
Baptist Union of Trinidad and Tobago Several thousand members
Other small groups Church of God Church of the Nazarene African M E Church Evangelical Alliance Assemblies of God and scattered Pentecostal groups
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Pongas Mission to French Guinea West Indian Mission to Gambia West Africa
LATIN AMERICA (Mexico Central America and South America)
Argentina (Republic of Argentina)
POPULATION 19 million mostly European stock Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Church under National Patronage
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant membership and community about 100000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederacion de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de la Plata (River Plate Confederation of Evangelical Churches - Argentina Uruguay Paraguay) 18 member societies The Confederation is a member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Union Evangelica de la Argentina
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de la Plata (Methodist Annual Conference of River Plate) now called Latin American Central Conference Argentina Annual Conference 5 districts about 6000 members Patagonia Provisional Annual Conference o
Iglesia de los Discipulos de Cristo (Church of the Disciples of Christ in Argentina) About 500 members
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION p
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Iglesia Evangtlica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church About 4000 members Member of WCC ~
District of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod About 15000 members~
Sinodo Evang~lico AlemAn del Rio de la Plata (German Evangelical La Plata Synod - inc Paraguay and Uruguay) Community of 100000 mostly German descent
Iglesia Congregacionalista de la Republica Argentina (Congregational Church of Argentina) About 6000 members
~onvencion Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of River Plate)~ About 11000 members
Seventh Day Adventist Buenos Aires and Central Argentina Conferences About 6500 members
Iglesia EvangeLLca Mennonita en la Argentina (Mennonite Church in Argentina) About 700 members
Union de las Asambleas de Dios (Union of Assemblies of God) About 2000 members~
Evangelical Union About 1000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 1500 members
Other small groups~ Conservative Baptists Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Alliance churches Brethren Pentecostal Holiness churches churches founded by New Testament Missionary Union and various other societies from the US and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Conference of River Plate has sent missionaries to Indians of Bolivia
Bolivia (Republic of Bolivia)
POPULATION 3~ million chiefly Ladinos and Indians 20 per cent European descent Spanish language and Indian dialects Roman Catholic is recognized religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small membership and slow growth with exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Pentecostalists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Bolivian Baptist Union About 1000 members~
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION p
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Methodist church Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Church of the Nazarene About 500 members~
Society of Friends About 1000 members~
Holiness churcheso About 1000 members ~
Churches among the Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Other groups scattered churches founded by various missionary societies
Brazil (United States of Brazil)
POPULATION 58 million rapidly growing cities moving frontier multi-racial people (white Negroes mulattoes and Asiatics) Portugese language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY ~lt[O and a half miLlLon commurucant members and adherents practically four per cent of the population Most rapid Protestant growth percentagewise of any country in the world~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederacao Evangtlica do Brasil (Evangelical Confederation of Brazil) organised in 1934 Five member church bodies Christian Reformed Episcopal Methodist Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Confederation is official member of 10M C with 2 voting representatives on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Igreja Metodista do Brasil (Methodist Church of Brazil) formed in 1930 Five annual conferences 3 bishops~ about 45000 members Autonomous church affiliated with Methodist Church in USA Member of WCC
Igreja Evangtlica de Confissao Luterano (Evangelical Church of Lutheran Conshyfession in Brazil) Related to Federacao Sinodal (Federation of Lutheran Synods) Community of 500000 Member of WCC~
Igreja Evangelica Luterana (Evangelical Lutheran Church District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Community of 84000
Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) formed in 1899 About 70000 members
Igreja Presbiteriana Independata do Brasil (Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil) Formed in 1903 About 22000 members
Igreja Crista Reformade do Brasil (Christian Reformed Church of Brazil) About 5000 members
Igreja Episcopal Brasileira (Episcopal Church of Brazil) About 6000 members
Convencao Batista Brasileira (BraZilian Baptist Convention) Formed in 1907 Over 400 self-supporting churches and about 125000 members
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION p
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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Catholic is national church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Igreja Evangelica Congregacional do Brasil (Congregational Church of Brazil) About 13000 members
Assembleias de Deus (Assemblies of God) About 200000 members
Igreja Holiness do Brasil (Holiness Ch~rch of Brazil) About 35000 members
The Pentecostal Churches of Brazil including the Assemblies of God and other bodies are reported to have over 300000 members The Penteshycostal movement largely indigenous is stronger in Brazil than in any other Latin American country
Churches among Indian tribes founded by interdenominational missions
Sierra Amazon Valley Association of Baptist Churches indigenous~
Other groups Mennonites Free Methodists Evangelical and United Brethren Church of God Salvation Army~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Missioraries have been sent to Angola
British Honduras (British crown colony)
POPULATION About 80000 multi-racial (British background) language - English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About one-fourth of the population is under Protestant influence
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras About 2000 members (Also 2000 members in Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala
Methodist Church About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Assemblies of God About 100 members
Other small groups Church of the Nazarene Church of God Salvation Army Pentecostal groups
Ghile (Republic of Chile)
POPULATION 6 million largely Spanish-Indian mixture Spanish language Roman
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Catholic is national church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 34 million evangelical Christian followers about 12 per cent of the population including an estimated 400000 Pentecostal adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Evangelico de Chile (2) Committee of Cooperation in Christian Work in Chile
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal (Pentecostal Evangelical Church) completely indigenous Largest group with about 70000 members and several hundred thousand adherents
Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Chile (German Evangelical Church in Chile) Community of 25000~
Methodist Church Chile Annual Conference (4 districts and 2 missions) About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church (24 Churches in Presbytery of Chile Synod of NY) About 2500 membersbull
Chilean Baptist Convention formed in 1949 About 6500 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 2000 members~
Assemblies of God in Chile About 1500 members
Seventh Day Adventist South Chile and North Chile Conferences About 6000 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and other small groups
Colombia (RepUblic of Colombia)
POPULATION 13 million mostly mixed ancestry ten per cent Negro Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small persecuted but virile churches
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n Evang~lica de Colombia (Evangelical Confederation of Colombia)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Presbiteriana de Colombia (Presbyterian Church of Colombia) About 1500 membersbull
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Ewangelical churches (founded by Gospel Missionary Union and the Evangelical Alliance Mission) About 1000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia Community of 2000
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Episcopal churches (in Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Panama Diocese) bull Few members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal churches Lutheran mission churches Methodist churches Mennonite churches scattered churches founded by various American and British missions
Costa Rica (Republic of Costa Rica)
POPULATION One million 80 per cent of pure European descent Spanish language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small Protestant minority~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican churches About 1000 members
Methodist Church Costa Rica District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
National Conference of the Assemblies of God About 400 members
Baptist churches About 500 members
Other small groups Society of Friends Lutheran churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by Central American Mission Latin America Mission and other interdenominational missionary societies About 2000 members
EcuAAor (RepubLic of Ecuador)
POPULATION 3~ million one-third pure Indian one-sixth pure Spanish others Ladinos Spanish language and tribal dialects Roman Catholic dominant religion but has no state support
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community very small two or three thousand believers No strong indigenous church as yet
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
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Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
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Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Evangelical Committee of Ecuador coshyordinating efforts of eleven mission groups including United Andean Indean Mission
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small Christian groups founded by various interdenominational societies shyChristian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Missionary Union etc Few hundred members
Baptist groups
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 750 members
Other small groups Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ecuador Brethren
El Salvador (Republic of El Salvador)
POPULATION Two million in the smallest and most densely populated of Central American Republics mixed-blood Spanish-speaking people
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Several small but strong Prot estant church bodies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Baptist Convention~ About 1000 members~
Other Baptist Churches About 2~000 members
Church of the Province of West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Several hundred Salvador members in this Diocese
Assemblies of God 6000 members~
Seventh D~ Adventist churches 1400 members
Society of Friends About 300 members
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Mission) About 2000 members
Guatemala (Republic of Guatemala)
POPULATION 3 million the majority pure Indian the remainder mixed Indian and Spanish blood
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
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INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small slowly growing Christian membership about 30000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica en Guatemala (Evangelical Church in Guatemala) indigenous About 9000 members
Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (Presbyterian Synod 5 presbyteries) About 5000 members
Society of Friends About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Primitive Methodist churches About 400 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members p
Church of the Province of the West Indies Diocese of British Honduras Few hundred Guatemala members
Other small groups ~ Brethren Church of God Church of the Nazarene Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
POPULATION Ii million j mixture of Spaniard Indian and Negro LanguageshySpanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small active church groups some with hi story from the 19th century some very newp Few thousand members
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
~hurch of the West Indies Diocese of Honduras (Anglican) Few hundred members
Society of Friends About 1000 members
Reformed Church Presbytery of Honduras About 500 members
Moravian Church About 750 members
Assemblies of God About 700 members
Evangelical churches founded by Central American Mission About 1200 members
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members
Baptist churches About 200 members~
Scattered groups Mennonite Lutheran Pentecostal etc
Mexico (Federative Republic)
POPULATION 27 million majority mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry 30 per cent pure Indian Spanish-speaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 150000 church members in a secular state with strong Roman Catholic history~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Concilio Nacional Evangelico de Mexico (Evangelical Council of Mexico) Member church bodies Congregational Nazarene Disciples Episcopal Lutheran Methodist Reformed Friends Salvation Army Assemblies of God COlillcil is member of IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Metodista de M~xico (Methodist Church of Mexico) Formed in 1930 autonomous Central Annual Conference (J districts) and Frontier Annual Conference 3 districts About 20000 members Member of WC~C
Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de M8xico (Presbyterian Church of Mexico) General Assembly formed in 1947 About 80000 members
La Iglesia Presbiteriana Asociada Reformada (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
Iglesia Christiana Nacional de las Assembleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) Fully indigenous under Mexican leadership About 25000 members of congregations
Junta General de las Iglesias Congregacionales (Union of Congregational Churches About 1000 memberso Feeling way to cooperation with Disciples of Christ and Associate Reformed Presbyterians
Las Iglesias Cristianas (Disciples) About 1000 members
Iglesia Episcopal Mexicana (Mexican Episcopal Church) About 2500 members
Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Mkxico (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mexico) Few hundred members
Iglesia Del Nazarene (Church of the Nazarene)~ About 3500 members
Convencion Nacional Bautista de Mtxico (Baptist Convention of Mexico) About 6000 members~
Iglesia de los Peregrinos (Pilgrim Holiness Church) About 4000 memberso
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION o
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
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Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Seventh Day Adventist churches About 13000 members
Iglesia Evang~lica de Los Amigos de M~xico (Friends) About 600 members
Independent and Pentecostal churches About 5000 members
Scattered churches among Indian tribes~
Nicaragua (Republic of Nicaragua)
POPULATION If million mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples most densely populated of Central American republics Spanish language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moravians are largest body with other groups total Protestant community is about 30000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Moravian Church About 10000 members
Convenci6n Nacional Bautista de Nicaragua (National Baptist Convention) o About 2000 members
Other Baptist churches About 2000 members
Church of the Nazarene About 300 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 membersbull
Other church groups (including those founded by Central American Missions) About 800 members
Episcopal Church Few hundred members
Panama (RepUblic of Panama) and Panama Canal Zone
POPULATION 900000 mostly Negro Ladino and European descent Spanishshyspeaking
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority religion Protestant community about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
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INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Episcopal Church About 4000 members
Methodist Church District of Central America Provisional Annual Conference About 500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 1500 members
Church of the Foursquare Gospel About 7000 members
Pentecostal churches About 7000 members
Other church groups Lutherans etc o
Paraguay (Republic of Paraguay)
POPULATION l~ million overwhelmingly Mestizos forming homogeneous stock languages Spanish and Guarani ancient Indian tongue Roman Catholic church is established religion of the state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Tolerated by Roman Catholics small community but slowly growing
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Confederaci6n de Iglesias Evang~licas del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convenci6n Bautista del Rio de la Plata (Baptist Convention of the Ri~r Plate) 500 members
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synodo About 200 members~
Mennonite Brethren churches (Indian tribes)~
Seventh Day Adventist churches o 500 members
Small groups of Pentecostal churches Assemblies of God Evangelicals Brethren Disciples Free Methodists o
Churches founded by interdenominational societies New Testament Missionary Union South American Missionary Society etc~
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Peru (Republic of Peru)
POPULATION 8 million largely Indian Spanish language and Indian dialects (Quochua and Aymara) Roman Catholic religion protected by state
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About 10000 members and a much larger Protestant community chiefly Pentecostal
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Concilio Nacional Evang~lico del Petu (National Evangelical Council) (2) Alianza Evangelica del Peru (Evangelical Alliance of Peru)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Iglesia Evang~lica Peruana (Peruvian Evangelical Church) About 10000 members many thousand more adherents ~
Methodist Church Peru Provisional Annual Conference About 1000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members large community
Assemblies of God About 5000 members~
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru Community of 1000 0
Church of the Nazarene About 1000 members~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 1000 members
Pilgrim Holiness Church About 1000 members
Other groups~ Baptist churches evangelical churches founded by various interdenominational missions
Independent Presbyterian churches
Uruguay (Republic of Uruguay)
POPULATION 2~ million predominantly Spanish descent increasing Italian immigration Spanish-speaking majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic but church and state are separate
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Growing Protestant congregations under state policy of religious freedom
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Confederaci6n de Iglesias del Rio de La Plata (Uruguay Argentina Paraguay) The Confederation is member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Federaci6n Uruguay de Iglesias Evangelicos (Uruguay National Council of Churches newly organized) Affiliated with River Plate (3) Associacitn Mutualista Evangelica del Uruguay
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
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INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Convencitn Evangelica Bautista del Uruguay (Baptist Convention of Uruguay) About 1000 members
Iglesia Metodista Conferencia del Rio de La Plata (Methodist Conference of the River Plate) Uruguay Provisional Annual Confer-ence About 2000 members
Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Church) About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2000 members
Small groups of Lutherans Assemblies of God Brethren Pentecostals and others
Venezuela (Republic of Venezuela)
POPULATION 5 million majority Ladinos 300000 pure Indians Spanish language Roman Catholicism is prevailing religion but religious freedom
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Small vigorous Christian community of about 15000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical churches About 2000 members
Presbyterian Church in Venezuela (Presbytery of Venezuela) About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Baptist and Brethren churches Few hundred members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela Community of 2000
Scattered churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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AFRICA (South of the Sahara)
Angola (Portugese West Africa)
POPULATION~ 4~ million mostly Bantu-Negro stock official language Portugese along with Afri~an dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Minority faith but given freedom by Roman Catholic government Protestant community about 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alianca Evangelica de Angola (Angola Evangelical Missions Conference) with full-time secretary
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Angola Annual Conference of Africa Central Conference (Methodist) 2 major districts About 30000 members
Church of Christ in Angola (United Church) About 30000 members
Baptist churches About 6000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members~
Church groups founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies from Britain and Europe
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Church of Christ in Angola sent a missionary to work among the fisherman on San Tome island off coast of West Africa
British West Africa
Gambia
POPULATION 300 000 Negroid tribes Madingo language mostly followers of Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo Small group of Methodists
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church (British background) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 1000 members
Anglican churches Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pangas Church of the Province of West Africa
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION o
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
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INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Togoland (Trust Territory has voted for integration with Ghana)
POPULATION 450000 Sudan Negroes tribal language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One church body with Presbyterian form of polity
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Ewe Presbyterian Church (Scotch background) About 13000 memberso
(See also Nigeria Cameroons Sierre Leone Togoland)
British South Africa
Basutoland (British Sout h Africa calony)
POPULATION Half million Basutos a Bantu tribe in this little reservation for natives and British protectorate surrounded by the Union of South Africa Language one of the Bantu languages~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Anglican and Evangelical churches largely self-supporting
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Corrnnunity of about 50000 -shyfigures included under Union of South Africa shyc
Evangelical Church of Basutoland Many thousand members Self-governing and almost self-supporting body
Other small church groups
MISSIONARllS FROM THE YOUNGER CHURCHES Basuto missionaries sent to work among Basutos employed in South African mines c
Swaziland (Protectorate in British South Africa northeast of Union of S~ A)
POPULATION 225000 The Swazis are a Bantu tribe akin to the Zulus Bantu language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of nearly eighty years with record of strong faith and devoted witness The Protestant community is small but vigorous cshy
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION o
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church groups Evangelical Alliance Methodists Church of the Nazarene churches founded by international missions
Bechuanaland (Protectorate in British South Africa)
POPULATION 300000 Bechuana tribe people of Bantu stock with their own chiefs widely scattered over the country
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Bechuanaland is site of early missionary labors of Moffatt and Livingstone Here too John Mackenzie served Due to conversion of King Khama at end of 19th century many of the tribe became Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches Reformed churches Evangelical Lutheran churches and other groups Included in statistics for Union of South Africa
Cameroun (French trusteeship)
POPULATION 3 million Bantu-speaking and Sudan Negroes also Pigmy people Islam prevails in the north
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITYo History of over a century large and active church bodies
INIER-CHURCH COOPERATION Federation Evang~lique du Cameroun et de lAfrique Equitoriale
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Cameroon Presbyterian Church 8 presbyteries o Now autonomous About 75000 members
Reformed Evangelical Church (French background) About 65000 members
Lutheran Churches About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches 2500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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British Cameroons (British West Africa trusteeship territory)
POPULATION l~ million Bantu and Sudan Negroes tribal languages Islam influential
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history in the past century nOW fairly strong Church
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION o
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church (English Baptist and Basel Mission background) About 25000 members
Lutheran Free churches About 2000 member-a
Baptist churches About 8000 members
Congo Belge (Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 12 million three ethnical groups and fifty or more tribes with many languages white population 80000 Official language French four main native languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Rapidly growing alongside Roman Catholicism Protestant community is nearly one million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIONo Conseil Protestant du Congo (Congo Protestant Council formed in 1902) Constitution revised in 1955 object lito unify and develop the work of Protestant Evangelical missions in the conventional basin of the Congo to foster the Church of Christ in the Congo and to relate the Protestant Christian Community effectively to the authorities and to Christian bodies in other Lands It 28 member missions 6 consultative one associated total 35 not members - 8 missionso Rev Ro B de Carle ThompsonSecretaryo Beginning in 1957 one African delegate from the church of each mission has been admit t ed as a councillor with voting power General term for the native church LEglise du Christ au Congo (Church of Christ in the Congo)o Congo Protestant ~ouncil has two voting representatives in the IMoC
YOUNGER CHURCHES Very few church groups have as yet a separate organization apart from their founding missions
Methodist Church Central Congo and Southern Congo Annual Conferences (11 districts) Full and preparatory members about 30000 0
Larger church groups with denominational background Baptist about 8Q000 members Presbyterian about 80000 members Disciples of Christ about 80000 members Christian and Missionary Alliance about 25000 members Seventh Day Adventist about 20000 members Covenant about 25 000 members Conservative Baptist about 14000 memberso
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
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INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Other groups Assemblies of God Free Methodists Friends Mennonites Independent Baptists Interdenominational Independent
Ethiopia (Empire of Ethiopia) and
Eritrea (autonomous unit under Ethiopian crown)
POPULATION 0 Ethiopia 15 million one-third Ethiopian or Amharan main stock Hamitic one-third of people belong to Coptic Church community official language Amhiric and English Eritrea one million principal religion Islam official language Tigrinya
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY In spite of evangelistic educational and medical work for a century the Protestant community is still relatively small members are drawn from both the non-Christian population and the older Coptic Church o
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Lnter~mission Council of Ethiopia (2) A consulshytative body of native churches separate from the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Evangelical Churches of Ethiopia (among Galla Wallame Gudela and Kambatta tribes) Several hundred congregations many thousand members
Evangelical Christian Church of Eritrea About 5000 members
Lutheran Church of Ethiopia (Mekane-Jesus group and Sidomo Church) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Eritrea About 5000 members An Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being planned
Bethel group of evangelical churches (Presbyterian background) About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 500 members
Small groups ~ Mermonites Baptists Anglicans
French Eguitorial Africa (Afrique Equitoriale Francaise)
POPULATION 4~ million great majority Negroes speaking Bandu and Sudanese dialects Official language French
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Taking root in spite of Roman Catholic strength and growing Muslim influence o
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATIONJ Federation Evangelique du Cameroun et de 1 Afrique Equitoriale
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
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Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Lutheran Church (various groups) About 10000 members
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Brethren Church About 10000 members
Baptist churches loosely organized About 10000 members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 500 members
Other churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies a few Lutheran churches~
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Francaise) (Mauritania Senegal (Dakar) French Guinea Upper ~olta French Sudan Miger Ivory Coast Dahomey Togo trusteeship)
POPULATIONo 17 million many African tribes with native languages Official language French Moslem influence strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Fairly strong in some of the colonies
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION F~d~ration des Missions Protestante en AOoF
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Reformed Church (French background) About 12000 members
Methodist Church About 10jlOOO members
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches
Assemblies of God About 5j1000 members
Baptist churches Conservative Baptist churchesjl churches founded by various interdenominational missionary societies Few thousand members
Ghana (Former Gold Coast) (Since 1957 =-rre member of British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 4 million Fifty Sudan Negro tribesjl Hausa settlements on main routes Languages - Dagomba Twi Ga English spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY History of over a century resulting in strong Protestant community of 300000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) From the beginning representation of both missions and churches The secretary is a national the Rev P M Dagadu Council is applying for IMC membershyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) About 40000 menbers Member of WCC
Ewe Presbyterian Church About 13000 members (See British Togoland)
The Methodist Church of the Gold Coast (Ghana) part of the Methodist Church of West Africa About 60000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 3000 members
Baptist churches About 2000 members
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Mennonite churches - spont aneous new development
Kenya (Kenya colony and protectorate British East Africa)
POPULATION 6 million Bantu Hamitic and Sudan Negro stock Tribal languages Many European settlers and also Arabian and Indian immigrants Increasingly multi-racial society Islam and semimiddot-religious secret societies strong
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community of 300000 Anglicans Friends Presbyterians and Pentecostalists being the largest groups~
INfER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~ Kenya Ghristian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Mombasa About 40000 members
Annual Meeting Society of Friends About 20000 members
Presbyterian Church of East Africa About 20000 members Has applied for WCC membership
Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 25000 members
Methodist Church About 2500 members
Church of God About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Churches founded by various interdenominational missions About 10000 members
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Liberia (Republic of Liberia Constituted in 1847)
POPULATION 2 million Forty African tribes and small group of descendants of American freed slaves Tribal languages English is official language~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant influence strong since founding of the Republic Protestant community of 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Liberia Committee on Reference and Counsel~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church 4 districts About 20000 members
Episcopal Church About 5000 membersbull
Assemblies of God About 2000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liberia About 3000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 700 members
Presbyterian Church About 500 members
Other church groups Baptist churches Pentecostal churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
Madagascar (French overseas territory) (Also Reunion and Comoro Islands)
POPULATION Nearly 5 million Malagasy people different tribes Malay-Polynesian type of language with dialects Comoro Islands 130000 Malagasy Arab and Negro stock Mostly Muslims~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Checquered history since 1818 but now quite strong and vital more than half a million Protestant Christians on the island churches rapidly approaching autonomy
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Qomit~ Intermissionaire de Madagascar (Madagascar Inter-missionary Committee) (The Pr ot est ant Church of Madagascar is a general term used for the Protestant movement on the island)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy) General Synod (organized 1950 constitution adopted 1956) 6 synods About 200000 members
Malagasy Episcopal Church with resident Bishop About 30000 members
~ongregational Church Membership about 50000 one thousand churches
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Reformed Church (French background) About 40000 members 200 churches
Society of Friends About 7000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Church of the Nazarene Small membership
Mauritius and Seychelles Islands (British possessions east of Madagascar)
POPULATION Mauritius 500000 multi-racial languages English French and Indo-Aryan Seychelles 37000 people mostly African descent few hundred English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Only a few hundred Protestant Christians among the non-western population Roman Catholicism dominates Church of England Diocese of Mauritius
Mozambigue (Mo1ambique Portugese East Africa)
POPULATION 6~ million large majority are Bantu tribes people languages Bantu and Portugese
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although the government is nominally Christian Islam is influence is growing and serious restrictions have been placed on the Protesshytant faith However there is a Protestant community of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Mozambique (Methodist Congreshygational British and Swiss mission) (2) Cooperative Committee for Mission Work in Portugese East Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Southeast Africa Annual Conference (formed in 1954) 5 districts About 5000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Zanzibar About 15000 members~
Church of Christ in Mozambique About 1000 members
Evangelical church bodies (British and Swiss background) About 20000 members
Free Methodist Church About 2500 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Nigeria (Federation of Nigeria British West Africa)
POPULATION 31 million large number of Negro tribes with much intermarriage Language Sudan dialects Arabic English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY One of the strongest Protestant communities in Africa nearing one million in total number of members and adherents
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nigeria
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Church of the Province of West Africa Diocese of Lagos on the Niger About 100000 members Member of WCC
Methodist Church of East Nigeria and West Nigeria Methodist Church of West Africa About 40000 members
Presbyterian Church of Biafra About 15000 members
Evangelical churches of the Qua Thoe (River) Mission largely self-supporting About 40000 members
Assemblies of God About 6000 members
Baptist Churches About 30000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 10000 members
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria Community of 28000
Lutheran Church of Christ in the Sudan and other Lutheran groups About 10000 members
Apostolic Churches About 15000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions and Brethren churches forming a Federation About 15000 members
Other small groups Christian Reformed Disciples Salvation Army Reformed churches Few thousand members
Nyasaland (Nyasaland Protectorate) (British South Africa Central African Federation)
POPULATION 2 million Bantu tribes and Swahili people tribal dialects English spoken by few
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is about ene-tenth of the populashytion Largest church body is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Nyasaland
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Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YO UNGER CHURCHES
Church of Central Africa (Presbyterian) About 150000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Nyasaland and other Dioceses About 20000 members (See also Rhodesia)
Evangelical church bodies (British and international background) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members
Baptist churches Few thousand members
Other small groups of churches
Portugese West Africa (Portugese Guinea Azores Cape Verde Islands Madeira (Funchal) Islands)
POPULATION Over one million Portugese Guinea Sudan Negroes of several tribes and languages The islands people mostly of European stock language Portugese or Creole
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community is very small
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Scattered indigenous churches
Presbyterian Church of the Azores Few hundred members
Church of the Nazarene on Cape Verde Few hundred members
Presbyterian and Methodist churches on Madeira Islands Few hundred members
Seventh Day Adventist churches Few hundred members
Rhodesia (British South Africa Central Africa Federation)
Southern Rhodesia
POPULATION About 2 million Chiefly Bantu stock three main divisions About 50000 Europeans few thousand Asiatics Bantu dialects and English
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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language Society increasingly multi-racial~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant community a century old is strong and growshying) nearly one~tenth of the population
INTER~CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Conference of Southern Rhodesia A consulshytative body of the emerging native churches has been consolidated with this
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of Central Africa (Anglican) Diocese of Rhodesia About 25000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Rhodesia Annual Conference Southern Rhodesia 7 districts About 15000 members
Methodist Church (British backgrolmd) About 15000 memberso
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 members
Reformed churches About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Baptist churches Few hundred members
Churches of Christ (Disciples) About 3000 members
African Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of 8000~
Churches founded by international missions and other missionary societies Few thousand members
Northern Rhodesia
POPULATION 2 million More than seventy Bantu tribes six leading languages and many dialects few Europeans Growing industrial centers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Relatively brief history yet the Protestant community numbers over 50000 and continues ~o expand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia (2) The United Missions in the Copper Belt
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Churches About 15000 members
Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia (Presbyterian and Congregational) About 5000 memberscshy
Anglican Church Diocese of Northern Rhodesia About 8000 membersoshy
Member of WoCC
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Methodist churches About 1500 members
Baptist churches 2000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 5000 members
Churches founded by Brethren ani other British missionary societies bull Few thousand members~
Ruanda-Urundi (Territory under Belgian trusteeship adjoining Belgian Congo)
POPULATION 4 million majority are tribes of Bantu race the ruling class is of Hamitic origin Bantu and Sudan languages Territory is densely populated~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The greater number of Protestants in this territory have been Anglicans a remarkable spiritual revival has been experienced recently in this church body The Seventh Day Adventists are growing fast
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Alliance of Protestant Missions in Ruanda-Urundi
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church About 20000 members in hundreds of congregations bull
Seventh Day Adventist churches 28000 members reported
Free Methodist Church Few thousand members
Other small groups Friends Baptists churches founded by intershydenominational societies
Sierra Leone (British West Africa colony)
POPULATION 2 million Many races and tribes various Sudan dialects European languages spoken by some
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e- History of a century and a half early indigenous movements Protestant community today of about 50000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Sierra Leone formed in 1924 Member of IMC with one voting delegate on the Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Sierra Leone Church (Anglican) Diocese of Sierra Leone About 11000 members
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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West African Methodist Church About 7000 members
The Evangelical United Brethren Church Annual Conference (recently organized) About 3000 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Church of God About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 800 members
Other smaLl groups United Brethren churches Pentacostal churches churches founded by international missions
Somalilands
Italian Somaliland (Italian trusteeship territory under U N)
POPULATION About one and a quarter million the largest of the three Somalishylands African people Somali language mostly shepherds
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Young and weak in this dominantly Moslem country
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran and Mennonite churches Few hundr-ed members
British Somaliland (Somaliland Protectorate)
POPULATION Half million mostly nomadic Somali language Muslims of the Shafii sect
PROTESTANT ClffiISTIANITY Closed to Chr-Lstaan missions because of Muslim power
French Somaliland (French Territory of the Somali Coast)
POPULATION About 65000 smallest of Somalilands Somali and Danikel people Hamitic language
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant churches
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
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Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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South-West Africa (Mandated territory under Union of South Africa)
POPULATION e 400000 made up largely of African tribes Hottentots and Bushmen ten per cent Europeans Tribal dialects of Bantu group White population 50000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work for 150 years had resulted in an active Protestant community of 150000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of DamaraLand 5000 members
Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode Sudwest-Afrikas (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South-West Africa) formed in 1926 new constitution in 1956e
50000 members
Congregational Church (Finnish misaionary background About 30000 members
Methodist Church of South Africa Few hundred members
Spanish West Africa (Spanish Guinea COhtinental Guinea Fernando Po Canary Archipelago)
POPULATION Continental Guinea population 200000 African tribes predominant language Bantu Canary Islands population 700000 mixture of Spanish and Guancho common language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Community of two or three thousand Roman Catholicism is dominant
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Small number of Methodist Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist and indigenous evangelical churches Few thousand members
Tanganyika (British East Africa) (Trusteeship under Great Britain and U N)
POPULATION 7 million mostly native Africans tribes of Bantu orlgln also some Indians Arabs and Europeans Languages Swahili Arabic Indian languages and English spoken by small numbere
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY After a century of inspiring missionary history there is a vigorous and growing Protestant community of about 300000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Christian Council of Tanganyika representing both missions and the African churches
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church (1) Central Tanganyika Diocese over 500 organized conshygregations 20000 members African Assistant Bishop (2) Diocese of Zanzibar Masasi SS Tanganyika 80000 member-s
Lutheran Church of Tanganyika objective of present Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika Lutheran Church of Central Tanganyika Evangelical Church of Buhaya (Bukoba) and four other Lutheran groups Total membership about 100~000
Moravian Church About 20000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 8000 members~
Mennonite Churches About 1000 members
Assemblies of God About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions
Ugand( (The Uganda Protectorate) British East Africa)
POPULATION 5 million majority native Africans Baganda and Pigmy tribes 40000 Asians and few thousand Europeans Chiefly Bantu languages
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Through the work of many outstanding missionaries a remarkably large and increasingly indigenous Anglican Church has developed It is the largest church body in Uganda but other groups are growingly active
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Anglican Church of Uganda Diocese of Uganda~ About 100000 members~
Churches founded by interdenominational missions Several thousand members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2000 members~
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Union of South Africa (Dominion within British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 13 million Bantus representing many different tribes 9 million Europeans (including native-born whites) 2 million Cape-coloreds mixed stock about one miLlLon Asiatics Muslims and Hindus few hundred thousand Languages English Afrikaans (Cape Dutch) Bantu Dialects Rapid modernishyzation and insutrialization of the country social tensions created by aparthoid policy of the Gover-nmerrt
PROTESTANT _ CHRISTIANITY Here Robert Moffatt and David Livingstone began their missiona~ work The Dutch Reformed churches have a history of about two centuries and are the largest Protestant community about l million Other churches among the white peoples are the Church of England Presbyterian German Lutheran churches etc Many Protestant churches have been established among the Bantus by a great variety of missionary societies and one-third of the non-European population is said to be nominally Christian The several hundred Bantu sects are a mixture of Ghristianity animism and pagan supershystitions The 1950 Government census gave the Protestant population as 4 million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Christian Council of South Africa formed 1936 Member of IMC with two voting representatives (2) Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa
YOUNGER CHURCHES (among non-Europeans)
Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) About 200000 members 12 bishops Member of the WCC
~he United Church of South Africa (Congregational Union of South Africa) formed in 1956 About 70000 members Member of the WC Co
Metmdist Church of South Africa About 250 000 members Member of WC C
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 35000 members Member of the WCC
Presbyterian Church of South Africa About 30000 membersc-
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa being organized in 1957 About 250000 members community of 500000 in many synods with various mission backgrounds
Reformed Churches (Dutch) - among non-whites About 100000 members
Baptist church organizations (African United National Baptist Church and native churches of Baptist Union of South Africa etc ) About 20000 members
Assemblies of God 25000 members
Other Pentecostal and Holiness churches About 90000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 20000 members
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Reformed Churches (French background) About 50000 members
Other church groups Brethren Alliance churches Churches of Christ (Disciples) Salvation Army churches founded by international missionary societies Moravian Church Society of Friends Methodist churches (not in Methodist Church of SaA) etc Several thousand members
Native separatist churches (sects) About one million members
(Note Some of the above figures include Basutoland Swaziland and Bechuanaland )
NEAR EAST I MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Arabic and Islamic World)
Afghanistan
POPULATION 12 million Afghans and other nationalities 2 million are nomadic tribesmen Language Pukhtuh or Pushtu and some Persian Religion an intolerant form of Islam which forbids the entrance of missionaries of other faiths
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Islam completely replaced the earlier Nestorian Christian faith of the area There are a few Protestant Christian groups today on the borders of Afghanistan but none in the country itself
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia (Sovereign kingdom)
POPULATION 5~ million sparsely scattered Arabian people and language Strongly Moslem in faith and customs
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The story of Protestant missions in this area is full of heroic devotion and sacrifice and much self-denying Christian service has been carried on However the fruits in a Protestant community have been very meager
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
No indigenous churches as yet The Church of Christ in Arabia is still a dream Converts in the Reformed Anglican Lutheran and other congregashytions number a few hundr-ed
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Kingdom of the Yemen (Independent Kingdom) Muscat and Oman (Independent Sultanate) Aden (British Protectorate~Bahrein Islands Kuwait etc (British Protectorate)
POPULATION Yemen 5 million Muscat and Oman half miLlion Aden 200000 Bahrein Islands and Kuwait etc 120000
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Few hundred Protestant Christians
Cyprus (British crown colony)
POPULATION Half million Cypriotes four-fifths have Greek ancestry one-fifth Turkish ancestry Languages Greek Turkish and English Main religions Greek Orthodox and Islam
~ (Republic of Egypt proclaimed in 1953)
POPULATION 23 million People mostly Coptic and Arabic Languages Arabic and Bishari (modern derivative of ancient Egyptian) Islam is prevailing religion less than ten per cent of the people are Coptic Christians
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY More than a century of Protestant missions has borne fruit in a Christian community of over a hundred thousand (not counting the Christians of the ancient Coptic Church) The largest group is Presbyterian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Egypt Inter-mission Council (2) Represented in the Near East Christian Council which is member of the IMCo (with 3 voting representatives)~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
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Evangelical Church in Egypt (United Presbyterian Synod of the Nile) six presbyteries Autonomous body Membership of 30000 and community of
JOOO Has applied for membership in WCC
Anglican Church of Egypt Diocese of Upper Nile About 1000 members Self-governing and independent Church
Assemblies of God About 5000 members
Pentecostal and Holiness churches Few thousand members
Churches founded by interdenominational and other missionary societies About 10000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical Church Synod of the Nile has sent an Egyptian missionary to the Sudan
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Greece (Kingdom of Hellas)
POPULATION~ 8 million Language modern Greek~ Official religion Greek Orthodox Church
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A few thousand Protestant evangelical Christians
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through the Near East Christian CounciL
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Greek Evangelical Church About 1500 members
National Episcopal Church in Greece
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 200 members~
Iran (Kingdom of Iran formerly Persia)
POPULATION 20 million ancient Persian stock~ There are also 100000 Armenians and Nestorians Languages Persian Kurdish Arabic Turkish Islam (Shia branch) is the official religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Henry Martyn pioneered here and many able and conse~
crated missionaries have witnessed and served for a century and a half but no great harvest is yet seen The Protestant community nwnbers less than t8n thousand and is not financially strong~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Church Council of Iran (2) Through Near East Christian Council member of IMC with 3 representatives
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Synod of the Evangelical Churches of North Iran (Presbyterian) About 3000 members Member of WCC
National Episcopal Church in Iran About 500 members
Assemblies of God About 600 members
Small Groups Seventh Day Adventist churches about 200 members and others
Iraq (Limited monarchy sovereign state)
POPULATION 5 million Arabs of Semitic origin~ Languages Arabic and Kurdish Islam is the dominant religion
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Some remnants of the ancient Eastern churches may be found Protestantism began more than a century ago and yet on account of old traditions and Moslem opposition the Christian community established numbered only a few thousand believers Today the Government attitude to the Church is friendly and the outlook is more hopeful~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION In a conference stage
YOUNGER CHURCHES
United Church in Iraq (Presbyterian Reformed Evangelical) About 500 members
National Episcopal Church in Iraq~ Membership small related to Near East Christian Council
Other small groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Lutherans~
Israel
POPULATION One and three-fourths million mostly Jews minority of Arab refugees Languages Hebrew English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant Christian community is not more than 10000
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Israel Regional Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Israel Few hundred members Associated with Near East Christian Council
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church Few hundred members~
Baptist churches 3500 members
Other small groups Assemblies of God Lutheran congregations Seventh Day Adventist churches Pentecostal churches and congregations begun by interdenominational missionary societies
Various Hebrew Christian congregations Few thousand members no national body
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION One and three-fourths million including several hundred thousand Arab refugees from west of the Jordan River People Arabian stock Moslems Official language Arabic
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
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Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY e Small community of a few thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Jordan About 2500 members
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members
Evangelical Lutheran congregations Church constitution in preparation About 1000 members
Other church groups Society of Friends Church of the Nazarene Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Pentecostalists About 1000 members bull
Lebanon (Independent Republic since 1941)
POPULATION l million of whom 30 per cent live in Beirut People of Syrian stock with some European admisture Languages Arabic (official) Turkish Aramaic and French e
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Moslem Christian Maronite and Greek Orthodox influshyences are strong yet Protestant education and evangelism have enjoyed freedom A vigorous Protestant community of considerable size has developed e
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION e (1) Headquarters of the Near East Christian Council (2) United Christian Council of Southwest Asia
YOUNGER CHURCHES e
Evangelical church (Synod) of SYria and Lebanon (Presbyterian) About 6000 members in both countries Member of NECC
~ongregational Churches About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria~
Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church About 3000 members in Lebanon and Syria
Other church groups Reformed Society of Friends Assemblies of God Disciples of Christ Baptist Church of God Few hundred members
North Africa
Morocco (Monarchy of Morocco former French and Spanish protectorate independent
kingdom since 1956)
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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POPULATION Former French Morocco 9 million People Arabs Aboriginal Berbers Moors Jews Negroes Europeans Languages Arabic Berber French Former Spanish Morocco one million and a quarter Languages Arabic Berber Spanish
PROTESTANTISM Very small Protestant gr oups in this dominantly Moslem area al shythough some earnest missionary work is carried on Roman Catholicism dominates among the European population~
Algeria (French overseas territory)
POPULATION 9 million including a million Europeans People are Arabs and Berbers a mixture of many tribes Languages Arabic Berber and French Islam is the dominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionary work has been done for eighty years but a very small Protestant community has resulted Methodist and Seventh Day Adventist churches some congregations established by interdenominational missions
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church North Africa Provisional Annual Conference Few hundred members
Tunisia (Sovereign state within the French Union since 1950)
POPULATION 3 and three-fourths million 90 per cent Bedouins Arabs and Berber tribespeople ten per cent are Europeans Dominant religion Islamlt
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Exceedingly small congregations begun by Methodist and interdenominational missions and Seventh Day Adventists include a few hundred members
Libya (Independent federal kingdom since 1951)
POPULATION 1200000 scattered over the country Agricultural and nomadic people of Arabic stock and Italians Languages Arabic Sudan tribes Italian Islam prevails
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Slight trace~
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Spanish Possessions
POPULATION Rio de Oro (Spanish Sahara) 40000 nomadic and fishing people language Arabic Moslem fadth Ifni 40000 Muslims Canary Islands Half million misture of Spanish and Guancho principal language Spanish
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Almost no missionary work and the barest trace of a Protestant community
Sudan (The Republic of the Sudan proclaimed in 1956 formerly Angloshy
Egyptian Sudan)
POPULATION 9 million mostly SUdanese some Africans in the South Islam is the prevailing religion Languages Arabic and Sudanese dialects
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Due to Moslem strength Protestant advance has been slow However there are some active congregations The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant group the Presbyterian Church is vigorous
INTER-middotCHURCH COOPERATION (1) Inter-mission Council for the Northern Sudan (2) Christian Council for South Sudan (3) North Sudan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in the Sudan About 6000 members
Evangelical Church Sudan Presbytery and Presbytery of the Upper Nile About 1000 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missionary societies Few hundred members
Syria (Illdependent RepUblic)
POPUIATION 4 million People of SYrian stock with some European admixture Languages Arabic Turkish Aramaic French The great majority are MOslems The half million Christians include Greek Orthodox Greek Catholics Armenian and Syrian Orthodox believers
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY There is a Protestant community of over ten thousand For statistics see also Lebanon
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION See Lebanon
YOUNGER CHURCHES See Lebanon
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Turkey (Republic of Turkey)
POPULATION 21 million of whom l~ million are in European Turkey Present inhabitants are descendants of Mongolian race Language Turkic Religion Islam~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A long history of educational medical and other Christian social service but the community of Protestant believers numbers only a few thousand Severe restrictions on Christian evangelism persist
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Through Near East Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCHES
National Episcopal Church in Turkey Member of NECC
Congregational Churches About 1000 members
Other small groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Armenian church groups
ASIA (From India and Pakistan eastward to Indonesia)
Bhutpoundn (semi-independent kingdom related to India)
POPULATION 600000 Mongolian origin Sino-Tibetan language of Tibetan Buddhism
Religion a form
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY No Protestant Christians in Bhutan closed to missionary work
The country is
Burma (The Union of Burma) (Independent Republic since 1947)
POPULATION~ 19 million Four-fifths are native Burmese one-fifth are tribes~
people - Karens Chins and Kachins together with a smaller number of immishygrants from India and China Language Burmese tribal dialects and Chinese Main religion Buddhism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strongest among the tribespeople especially the Karens who are ten per cent Christian and furnish 90 per cent of the Protestant comshymunity of Burma The Karen Baptist Church is one of the strongest and most missionary-minded of the indigenous churches of Asia The number of converts from Burmese Buddhism has been much smaller Total Protestant community about 400000~
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
YO UNGER CHURCHES go
Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN Hong Kong Christian Council o
YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION Burma Christian Council representing Anglicans~
Methodists Baptists and various interdenominational organizations Member of I oMCo with one voting representativeo
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Burma Baptist Convention About 200 000 members Burma Baptist Churches Union Falam B Association Haka B Association Indian B Association Kachin yenuss ion Mon B Christian Churches Union Fwo Karen B Conference Sgaw Karen B Convention Shweli Valley Shan B Mission Tiddim Bo Assoshyciation Has applied for WoCC o membership
Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Diocese of Rangoon~ About 12000 members Church of IPBC is member of WCoC o
Methodist Church Burma Annual Conference 6 districts of Upper Burma and Lower Burma in the Southern Asia Central Conference About 5000 members
Assemblies of God About 8000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 2 000 members~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES A Christian fellowship t eam of five went from Burma to Thailand 0 Missionaries have gone from the Karen Baptist churches to Thailand
Ceylon (Dominion within the British Commonwealth)
POPULATION 8 million Sinhalese~ Malays Tamils and a few thousand aboriginal Veddas Languages Indo-Aryan Dravidian Ceylonese (Sinhalese modern Indian dialect) and Tamil Buddhist stronghold some Hinduism in North Ceylon
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Smaller than Roman Catholicism Protestant community of about 100~000 Has spiritual life and missionary vigour but is not growshying rapidly
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION ~l) National Christian Council of Ceylon member of I oM Co with one voting representative ( 2) Evangelical Fellowship of Ceylon (Member of WEF bull)
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Diocese of Colombo Church of India~ Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) About 20000 members (Church of IPBC is member of WCoC)
Diocese of Jaffna (Church of South India) About 5000 member-a Church of South India is member of WbullCC
Methodist Church in Ceylon About 15000 members autonomous church Member of WgoCgoC
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Ceylon Baptist Council About 2000 members
Reformed Church in Ceylon Presbyterian Church in Kandy Presbyterian Church in Colombo About 2000 members
Salvation Army About 2000 members w
Seventh Day Adventist churches Ceylon Union About 600 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Small groups Lutheran churches churches founded by interdenominational missions~
United Church Negotiations are proceeding looking toward the organizashytion of a new united Church of Lanka (Ceylon) which would probably inshyclude the Colombo Diocese Church of IPBC Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India Baptist Council Methodist Church Reformed and Presbyterian churches
China (The Peoples Republic of China proclaimed in 1949)
POPULATION 600 million according to the census of the new Communist regime Language Chinese Kuo-yu or the National Language is official however there are also many local dialects The languages of Tibet and MOngolia are quite different from Chinese The main religions have been Buddhism Taoism and Confucianism (in its religious aspects) and folk religion There are 20 million Muslims
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A history of 150 years since Robert Morrison went as a missionary from England in 1807 Through many vicissitudes the Protestant Church has steadily grown with membership in both rural and urban areas and among all claaaes of the people In 1950 there was a Protestant commushynicant membership of about 9007000 and a vital community of l~ million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION The National Christian Council was organized in 1922 Since the Communist victory this Council has continued without any missionshyary participation But more powerful has been the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement (formerly Church Reform Movement) with representation from all church groups It is definitely not a Church but a federation under pro-Communist leadership of existing denominations and indigenous Christian groups NCC was formerly member of IMC present relationship uncertain
YOUNGER CHURCHES (Now completely independent) The church membership figures given are those of 1950 In spite of new accessions reported on the mainshyland the total membership is certainly not larger now than in 1950 and is probably smaller
Church of Chri st in China Membership about 177000 in 16 synods Member of WCC A united church of Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Evangelical Baptist and other churches
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Episcopal Church of China (Sheng Kung Hui 13 dioceses each with a Chinese bishop About 77000 members Member ofWC C
China Baptist C01IDcil About 17000 members Member of WCC
North China Congregational Union About 18000 members Member of WCC
Lutheran Church of China About 65000 members
The Methodist Church (Wei Li Kung Hui) About 103000 member
Chinese Methodist Church (Hs1ID Tao Kung Hui About 44000 members
China Assemblies of God About 12000 members
Nei Ti Hui (Churches founded by the China Inland Mission) About 85000 members
Chinese Presbyterian Church of Christ About 30000 members
True Jesus Church (indigenous church) About 125000 members
China Baptist Convention About 65000 members
The Disciples of Christ in China About 4000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 21000 members
Reformed Church Tsung Chen Synod About 22JlOOO members
Chinese Independent Church About 12000 members~
Christian and Missiona~J Alliance churches About 20000 members
China Mennonite Church About 3000 members
Other church groups Chinese independent churches Spiritual Food churches Jesus Family churches (104) China Advent Christian churches Salvation Army Society of Friends Pentecostal churches Christian Meeting Places (former Little Flocku ) Apostolic Faith Churches other indigenous groups About 50000 members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Many Chinese evang elist s from the mainland are working among Chinese populations of Indonesia and Pacific Islands The Chinese Foreign Missiona~ Union is one such organization
Hong Kong (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION~ 3 million mostly Chinese including more than one million refugees from the mainland Languages Chinese English
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Protestant population is estimated at 100000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YOUNGER CHURC HES
Anglican Church Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao Chinese congregationsry
Church of Christ in China Hong Kong District Association
United Hong Kong Christian Baptist Chinese Association~
Joint Committee of Swatow Baptist Churches in Hong Kong
Chinese Tsung Tsin Churches of Hong Kong District (Evangelical Hakka churches)
Hong Kong Lutheran Church
Assemblies of GodJ South China District
Other local Chinese churches Methodi st Lutheran Evangelical and Reshyformed) Christian and Missionary Alliance interdenominational
India (Sovereign democratic republic member of the Commonwealth since 1950)
POPULATION About 360 million Aryans or Hindus proper Dravidians $ abor-igfnaL tribespeople and some of Indo-Chinese stock Fourteen regional languages and large number of dialects Hindi is used by nearly half of the population and has been made the official language The Bible is translated into 22 languages English is spoken by the educated class o Ninety per cent of the people live in rural areas but urbanization and industrialization are Incr-easing Main religions Hinduism (85 per cent) and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Christianity first came to India in the early centuries of the Christian era and today some of these ancient churches are part of the Protestant ecumenical movement As a result of Protestant missions for two centuries the largest and most diverse Protestant church upon the Asia contIgt nent is now found in India with 25000 congregations and places of worship and a Protestant Christian community of four to five million
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION$ (1) National Christian Council of India of churches representing 12 national church bodies 19 regional councils and 47 missions (out of a total of 59 church bodies and 68 assisting missions listed in the CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK OF INDIA) The NCC is a member of the IoMC with four voting representatives (2) Evangelical Fellowship of India Member of WE oF o
YOUNGER CHURCHES (The nine ancient Armenian and Syrian churches with community of 75000 are not included in the list of younger churches )
Indian dioceses in The Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) 10 bishops and one metropolitan About 100000 members The CIPBC is a member of the WCoC o
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Church of South India (Union of Anglican Presbyterian Methodist Congregashytional and Reformed churches) First united church of Episcopal and non~ Episcopal churches inaugurated in 1947 14 dioceses 7 Indian bishops 1200 ordained ministers About 350000 members community of one million Member of WC C~
United Church of North~lIndia (Presbyterian Congregational Reformed Moravian) Negotiations for larger union with Anglican Methodist and Baptist churches are proceeding well with hope of consummation in 1960 Present membership about 150000 in 7 ~ods Member of WCC o
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India About 500000 members community of one million Member of WCC The Federation includes most of the Lutheran church bodies in India (1) Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church community of 250000 (2) Gossner ELC in Chotanagpur and Assam community of 200000 (3) The Tamil ELC community of 50000 (4) Ebeneser ELbullC community of 33000 (5) Jeypore ELC connnunity of 35000~ (6) The South Andhra Lutheran Church community of 15000 (7) ELC in Madhya Pradesh community of 5000 (8) The Arcot LC comshymunity of 12000 (10) East Jaypore ELC about 1000 members (11) India ELC (12) Sirhadi LC (13) The Evangelical LC~ - Missouri SJ710d will be forw~lly organized L~ 1958 community of 27000
The Methodist Church of India Annual ~onferences of Bombay and Gujarat Delhi and North India Hyderabad Madya Pradesh and South India Bengal and Lucknow Indus River and Sind Baluchistan Part of Central Conference of Southern Asia which is related to the Methodist General Conference About 150000 members
Baptist Churches Baptist Union of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon Conshystituents are as follows (1) Convention of the Baptist Churches of the Northern Circas member of NC~C About 40000 members (2) Convention of the Telugu Baptist Churches About 130000 members (3) Baptist Union of North India About 2500 members (4) Tripura State Baptist Christian Union About 3000 members (5) Utical Baptist Central Church Council~ About 10000 members (6) Assam Baptist Associations About 100000 members (7) Bengal and East Bengal Baptist Unions About 15000 members (8) Bengal-Qrissa Baptist Yearly Meeting About 3000 members~ (9) Garo Baptist Union (10) Mymensingh Garo Baptist Union (11) Goalpara North Goalpara and Boro Baptist Unions (12) Other Baptist unions councils conventions etc~
Methodist Church North India Provincial Synod About 4~000 members
Wesleyan Methodist Church India Conference~ Few hundred members~
Mennonite Evangelical Church in India About 5000 members
Telugu Mennonite Brethren Convention About 15000 members
Church of the Brethren About 10000 members
Disciples of Christ About 4000 members~
Presbyterian churches (not in union church bodies) Few thousand members
United Basel Mission Church in India About 15000 members
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Church of God in India in West India in Assamo About 8000 memberso
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 4000 members
Society of Friends Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends Service Council About 200 members
Churches of Christ Representative Council of the Churches of Christ (3 conferences) Conference of the Churches of Christ in West India 0
Few thousand members
Assemblies of God North India Assemblies of God 1000 members South India Assemblies of God 3500 memberso
Seventh Day Adventists churches Northwestern India Union South India Union About 9000 members~
Other small church groups Pentecostals independent evangelical churches churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Church of South India has missionary work in Papua encl sent one couple to New Guinea in 1953 The Church of South India missionary to Papua died in 1955 The Church of South India is sending two Indian Christian couples to work i~ cooperation with the Church of Christ in Thailand Federation of Evangelical Lutheran churches in India plans to send a missionary couple to work with Lutheran Church of Tanganyika is considerL~g
sending a bi-lingual pastor for work among Tamil and Telegu Lutherans in Ranshygoon and is inviting a Batak Christian to be a fraternal work in India Lutheran churches of India have sent a medical missionary and theological professor to work with the Batak Church on Sumatra Church of Nor-th India sent one couple to East Africa in 1953 and has appoL~ted a missionary couple for service in Kenya (1956) Diocese of Central Travancore (CIPBC) ha s appointed ordained missionary to work among Indians of Ianganyika and a reshycent theological graduate to work among Maylayese people in the Diocese of Singapore The YMCA of India has contributed Mr Co I Itty to the YMCA in Djakarta Indonesia
Portugese India (Colonies of Goa Nova Damao Diu)
POPULATION ~ One million
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY 0 Roman Catholic churches are powerfuL Few Pr-otestants
Indo-China (Viet Nam Laos Cambodia self-governing states within French Union)
POPULATION 29 million of which 10 million live in Central and South Viet Nam 13 million in North Viet Nam (Vietminh Communist) 4 million in Cambodia and
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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2 million in Laos~ The predominant race is Tai or Annamite the rest of the population embraces a variety of races The religious faith of the majority is a mixture of Chinese religions The language is Annamese 9 which shows Chinese and Tibetan influence and Cambodian
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Under French rule the Roman Catholic Church converted about two million Protestantism entered much later and has a community of twenty to thirty thousand largely the result of Christian and Ydssionary Alliance effort In spite of civil war revival movements have been reported
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION No Christian Council and little ecumenical relationshyship
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Church of Vietnam organized in 1927 by churches resulting from Christian and Missionary Alliance work About 139000 members (in non-Communist areas) Subsequently separate administrations have been set up for churches in Cambodia Laos and the Viet Nam tribespeople Several thousand members
Small church groups Jounded by Seventh Day Adventists Reformed Church and interdenominational missionary societies
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Evangelical church of Vietnam sends missionshyaries (9 couples) to Cambodian tribes people who live in Thailand~
Indonesia (Republic of Indonesia)
Proclaimed in 1950
POPULATION 80 million the largest islands are Java 50 million Sumatra 12 million western Borneo (Kalimantan) 4 million Celebes (Sulawesi) 6 million Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Islands) 4 million including Bali Sumba Sumbawa and Indonesian Timor and Western New Guinea (Irian) one million Other imshyportant islands Madura Molucca Islands Nias The Indonesian people are Malay-Polynesian in origin and speak many languages official language is Bahasa Indonesia based on Malay Dutch and English are the main foreign languages A large Chinese population of l~ million resides on the islands~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Moslems of Indonesia are more tolerant of Christishyanity than in other parts of the Islamic world Protestantism has made striking progress in this island area as a result first of German and Dutch missions and later of Australasian and American societies Strong indigenous churches have developed Near ten per cent of the people of Sumatra are conshysidered Christian the Protestant community on all the islands is 2~ million or about three per cent of the total population
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Council of Churches in Indonesia 30 member church bodies The Council has three voting representatives on the IMC (2) National Council of Chinese Churches
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES Most of the larger church bodies have regional r ather than denominational names the background is largely the Reformed faith and polity The figures given below furnished by the National Council of Churches unless otherwise noted refer to the evangelical church community (communicants children of Christian families and catachumens ) ~
Batak Protestant Christian Church Sumatra (Huria Christen Batak Protestant) Autonomous since 1930 Member of WCC Community of 650000~
Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa Northeast Celebes Formed in in 1935 Member of WC C Community of 350000~
Protestant Church of the Moluccas (Church of Ambon) Formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 350000 0
Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor Became autonomous in 1947 0 Synod and 3 Klasis Member of WCC Community of 250000
Protestant Church in Indonesia (Befor-e 1945 Protestant Church of Nether-shylands East Indies) lt General Assembly of four branches Protestant ChuTch of Western Indonesia Corr~unity of 200000 and Evangelical Churches of Timor Minahassa and Protestant Church of the Moluccas which are listed above as independent church bodie s Member of W C C~0
Toradja (Hillspeople) Church of Central Celebes larger union formed in 1949 Member of WCC Community of 50000~
Christian Church in East Java (Synod of East Javan Church) autonomous since 1931 0 Member of WCC Community of 50000 membersv
Javanese Christian Churches in Central Java autonomous since 1931 Member of WCC Community of 30 000~
Evangelical Church of Kalimantan (Western Borneo) formed in 19350 Member of WCC Community of 30000 mostly Dyak Christians ~
Christian Church in Nias Community of 160000
Evangelical Church of Sanghi-Talaud (northeast of Celebes) Community of 120000~
Other Celebes Churches Church of Mid-Celebes community of 80000 Church of West Celebes community of 2000 Church of Southeast Celebes community of 3 500 Headquarters of latter two are in Makassar and Kendari o
Other Sumatra Churches Karo Batak Church community of 13000 0
Methodist Church Sumatra (Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Provisional Annual Conference with 4 districts) community of 15 000 0
Other Java Churches Church of West Java (Pasundan) community of 7000~ Church of Mid-Java (Chinese) community of 3000 Church of West Java (Chinese) community of 6500 Church of East Java (Chinese) community of 3500 Mennonite Church of North Central Java community of 5 OOO ~
Other Islands Evangelical Church of Halmahera community of 3~ 500o
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Toradja Church of Mamasa community of 30000 Evangelical Church of Bolang-Mongondouw community of 170000 Church of Bali Protestant community of 2000 Church of Sumba community of 6500~
Reformed Churches (Gereformeede Kerken) in Indonesia (several islands) Community of 8000~
All the above Church bodies are affiliated with the Indonesian Council of Churches 0 Unaffiliated groups include
Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Borneo and Celebes o
About 5000 memberso Member of WEF
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 15000 members
Chinese Foreign Missionary Union o About 5000 members Member of WEF
Assemblies of God About 1000 members
Pentecostal congregations Community of 20000
Other Church groups Baptist churches Sclvation Army churches founded by interdenominational missions unaffiliated Chinese churches independent congregregations on various islands The total membership of groups not affiliated with the National Council of Churches is estimated at 100OOO~
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES Methodist Church of Sumatra has sent missionshyaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) Batak Church Christians are preaching on neighboring islands The Church of Ambon and the Church of Minahassa send missionaries to neighboring islands The Protestant Church of the Moluccas has sent missionaries to Irian The Christian Evangelical Church of Minahassa has supported missionaries in Lawak Manggai Timor Churches of Java have sent several missionaries to other islands~
Japan (Nippon) (Constitutional Monarchy)
POPULATIDN~ 88 million and growing rapidly high density of population Language Japanese Religions Buddhism Shintoism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity almost a century old in Japan has experienced many ups and downs Today the Protestant membership largely urban and middle class numbers about 300000 A little over one half of these are in the Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan) but there are also many other denominations and indigenous church groups The Protestant movement in Japan though small is fortunate to have an unusually large number of well qualified national leaders
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATIDN (1) National Christian Council organized in 1923 representing nearly 3000 churches and over 200000 members Member of I MG with two voting representatives~ (2) Japan Association of Evangelicals Member of WEF (3) Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Japan (Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan) This church body based on smaller unions before World War II was organized in 1941 by 34 Protesshytant denominations A number of these withdrew after the War) leaving 15 different church groups which are now united in the Kyodan These were formerly Methodist Congregationalist Disciples Presbyterian and Reformed (in part) Churches and a few Baptist and Holiness congregations o A Constitution and Statement of Faith were adopted in 1955 About 17 0 ~000
members in 1400 congregations Member of WCC
Japan Episcopal Church (Nippon Seiko Kwai)~ Autonomous Church 10 dioce ses~ 3 bishops one presiding bishop About 39000 members Member of WCC
Convention of Baptist Churches in Japan (Nippon Baputosuto Renmei) About 10000 members~
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nippon Fukuin Ruuteri Kyokai) About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches~ About 3500 members
Assemblies of God About 4000 members~
Church of Jesus Spirito About 12000 members~
Japan Christian Reformed Church (Nippon Kirisuto Kaikaku-ha Kyokai) ~ About 2000 memberso
Presbyterian Church (Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai or Shin-nikki) Presbyterian congregations which left the Kyodan in 1951~ About 3000 members
Japan Nazarene Church About 1500 membersu
General Associations of Korean Christians in Japan About 1200 members
Japan Salvation Armlf About 5000 members
Other denominations and indigenous church groups Friends of Jesus Inde shypendent evangelical churches Immanual churches Christian Brotherhood churches Free Methodist churches Christ1s churches Society of Friends Pentecostal and Holiness churches Holy Jesus Society churches Mennonite churches Alliance churches independent Lutheran churches Disci ple s churches churches founded by interdenominational missions Mar~~
thousand members
Non-church Movement (Mu-kyo-kai Un-do) Founded by Kanzo Uchimura (1860shy1930)~ Several thousand Christian converts and several ten thousand Bibl e students
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Korea (Republic of Korea established 1948)
POPULATION 30 million Of these 22 million live in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and 8 million nopth of the 38th parallel (Korea Peoples Republic Communist) The Korean Language belonging to the Ural-Altaic group has some affinities with the Chinese language Undep Japanese colonial rule the Japanese language was taught to all citizens o Buddhism has been the main religion of the people~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity in Korea with a history of only eighty years has excited all Christendom by its rapid growth In spite of political misfortunes Korea is today one of the strongest Christian countries of all Asia Scores of thousands of Christians have moved from Nopth to South Korea in the past few years Little is known about the Church in the Communist part of the country In South Korea the future of Christishyanity is promising in spite of some unhappy theological dissensions within the Church Protestant community about one million including families and inquireps
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) National Christian Council~ reorganized with a new constitution in 1951 includes representatives of Presbyterian Methodist Holiness and Seventh Day Adventist church bodies five missionary societies and eight other Christian organizations Member of the I MC ~ with two voting representatives (2) National Association of Evangelicals~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church of Korea About 150~000 members Member of WCC
The Methodist Church of Korea 7 districts Organized 1930 Autonomous About 50 ~000 members Member of WCC
Episcopal Church of Korea j with bishop About 10jOOO members
Holiness Church of Korea About 30000 members
Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Kopea (a new body which separated from the Presbyterian Church of Korea in 1954) About 20000 members
Presbyterian Fundamentalist congregations (Associated with International Council of Christian Churches) About 30~OOO members
Baptist Convention About sooo member-s
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 6 j OOO members
Other church groups Assemblies of God about 2j500 members Church of God~
about 1000 members Church of the Nazarene about 1000 membeps Salshyvation Army Brotherly Love Church Church of Jesus national mission churches
MISSIONARIES FROM THE YOUNCE CHURCHES Presbyterian Church of Korea sent (1956) Rev and Mrs Chang Yung Choi as their first missionaries to Thailand Formerly missionaries were sent to Shantung Province China
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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YOUNGER CHURCHES u
Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Malaya and Singapore (Federation of Malaya 1948 and British Crown Colony of Singapore will achieve independent status in 1958)
POPULATION 0 Population of the Federation (former nine States of the Malay Peninmiddotshysula and Straits Settlements of yen~lacca and Penang) together with Singapore is 6 million The people are Malays 2 million Chinese nearly 3 million Tamils from India and a few aborigines In Singapore 80 per cent of the population is Chinese Malay Chinese and Indian languages English is taught in the schools Islam is the predominant religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Protestant Christianity exists almost entirely among the Chinese population of Malaya and Singapore very few Malays are Christians The Protestant community numbers about 50 pOOO
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Malayan Christian Council ~nth representatives of Anglican Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran Mar Thoma Syrian Churches and Seventh Day Adventist groups also interdenominational organizations Member of the IMC with one voting representative (2) Singapore Evangelical Fellowship~ Member of WEF
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church Malaya and Malaysia Annual Conferences About 12000 members
Anglican Church Diocese of Singapore About 6000 members
Presbyterian Church Chinese Christian Church of Malaya (former Synod of Malaya) About 4000 members
Lutheran Church of Malaya (Tamil) About 1000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Assemblies of God About 500 members
Other small groups Brethren churches Baptist churches churches founded by China Inland Mission Overseas Fellowship (especially in the IINew Villages1I churches founded by interdenominational missions
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The Methodist Church has sent mdssionaries to Sarawak (North Borneo) to work among the Dyak people
Nepal (Constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 8 million Hill clans of Mongolian-Hindu stock dominant tribe is the Ghurkas Languages Nepali and Newari (Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan families) Ancient Hinduism and Lamaistic Buddhism are prevailing religions
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY is very new in Nepal and no churches as yet exist Missionary work largely medical was begun in 1954 through the United Medical
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Mission to NepaL The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India sends evangelists
Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Pakistan (Islamic Republic federation of two units - West Pakistan and East Pakistan parts of Bengal and Assam)
POPULATION o 78 million East Paki stan 43 million West Pakistan 35 million Largest Muslim state in the world but religious freedom is guaranteed in the new Constitution The people are Aryans the language is Punjabi a mixture of Indic and Iranic Urdu is also spoken and English by the educated class c -
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A century of missions has resulted in a Protestant comshymunity of a quarter of a million largely a mass movement Church o The strongshyest indigenous churches are in the Punjab
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION All-Pakistan Christian Council Member of the IMC with two voting representatives The Council includes six church bodies and ten missionary societies in (a) East Pakistan Christian Council and (b) West Pakistan Christian Council
YOUNGER CHURCIlliS
Presbyterian Synod of the Punjab 6 presbyteries in West Pakistan About 20000 memberse-
Methodist Church Pakistan annual conferences in the Central Conference of Southern Asia About 25000 members
Pakistan Dioceses in the Church of India Pakistan Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) (Lahore Archdeaconry Council) About 10000 members
Presbyterian Synod (Montgomery Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) About 5000 members
middotSirhadi Evangelical Lutheran Church About 500 members
Pakistani Lutheran Church Community of 1000
Church of the Nazarene About 1500 members
Baptist chur ches About 8000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches West Pakistan Union about 1000 members
Other church groups~ Assemblies of God 500 members Church of God Society of Friends Salvation Army Pentecostals churches of interdenominational missions
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches are included in Indian church bodies
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Philippine Islands (Republic of the Philippines proclaimed in 1946
POPULATION 19~ million with variety of tribal and language groups on the eleven main islands and hundreds of smaller inhabited islands The Filipinos constishytute about nine-tenths of the total the other tenth are Negritos (original inhabitants) Igorots (mountain tribes people) and Moroso The Chinese form the largest foreign groupo Language Spanish and scores of native languages and dialectso English widely understood Under Spanish rule Roman Catholicism beshycame the principal religion 0
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Although Protestant missionaries did not arrive until 1899 the eleven major islands and many of the smaller islands now have Protesshytant churches with a total Protestant community of about 600OOO~
INTER-CHURCH CooPERATION o Philippine Federation of Christian Churches) which includes United Church of Christ Methodist Churches Disciples Churches J Baptist Churches and some indigenous groups The Federation is a member of IMoC with two voting rperesentatives~
YOUNGER csuscHES
United Church of Christ in the Philippines Union of Presbyterian Congregashytional Evangelical United Brethren Methodist (in part) and Disciples (in part) churches About 100000 members Member of WoCC
Methodist Church Central Conference of Southeastern Asia Philippine Annual Conference Northern Philippines and Northwest Philippines Annual Confermiddotshyences Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference About 85000 memberso
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches About 25000 members
Episcopal Church o About 12000 memberso
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 41000 members reported
Churches of Christ (Disciples) of the Philippines o About 15000 (Other churches of this body are within the United Church of Christ) ~
Christian and Missionary Alliance churches About 8000 members
Other Baptist churches About 10000 members
Lutheran Church-middot-Missouri Synod Few hundred members
Other church groups Assemblies of God Pentecostal and Holiness churches Church of the Nazarene Church of God Reformed Church churches founded by interdenominational missionso Few thousand members
Non-Protestant and non-Roman Churches
Philippine Independent Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente also called Aglipayan Church) This Church is composed of priests and members who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 The American Protestant Episcopal Church ordains its new bishops othervise it is not related to the Protestant movement Membership about l~ million Q
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ) Founded by Felix Manalo in 1949 Membership about 100000
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES The United Church of Christ in the Philippines supports seven missionaries four in Thailand two in Indonesia one in Hawaii~
The Methodist Church supports a woman missionary in Okinawa and another in Nigeria this Church has organized its Ofl1 mission board The United Church and Methodist Church together sponsor two nurses and one music teacher in Indonesia Miss Leonara Flores has already served one missionary term in Nigeria The United Church has sent a missionary nurse to Thailand and a woman missionary to Nigeria Altogether thirteen missionaries from Filipino Churches serve in other countries
Ryukyus (Loochoo Islands) (United Nations and USA Trusteeship)
POPULATION Half million ethnical~ related to the aboriginal Japanese Languages Okinawan and Japanese Religion Buddhist and folk religion~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most Protestant Christianity work has been on the main island of Okinawa in this century Japanese church groups have assumed some responsibility for evangelizing their fellow-countrymen in the archipelago c-
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Church of Christ of Okinawa (Okinawa-jin Kirisuto Kyokai) United Church formed during World War II including Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Salvation Army Membership about 2000
12ay Small groups - Episcopalians Baptists Church of Christ SeventhAdventists
Taiwan (Formosa) (Headquarters of the exiled Chinese National Government)
POPULATION 8 million including over one million refugees from the China mainshyland The hill aborigines probably of Malayan origin number about 150000~
PRDTESTANTISM Before World War II only Presbyterian churches the result of Canadian and English Presqyterian missions existed on the island Now the inshyflux of refugees from the mainland and the entrance of over fifty new denomishynational missions have brought about an exceedingly diverse Christian community numbering about 150000 The Roman Catholic community is reported as 50000~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION (1) Taiwan Missionary Fellowship (2) Evangelical Fellowship of Taiwan Member of WEF (3) Cooperation in connection with Tunghai Christian University and other educational efforts
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
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Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Presbyterian Church of Taiwan The former two Synods of North and South Taiwan were united February 1957 into one General Assembly Membership about 24000 in the Taiwanese churches about 13000 in the mountain aboriginal churches Total 27000 0 Member of WCC
Little Flock churches about 30000 members True Jesus churches (Penteshycostal type) about 15000 members These are indigenous Chinese groups which have come from the mainland
Baptist churches About 5000 members
Taiwan Lutheran Church About 3000 members
Methodist churches 600 members Free Methodist churches 150 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1000 members
Other church groups Episcopal churches Society of Friends Lutheran-shyMissouri Synod Independent Kuoyu (National Language) churches Pentecostal and Holiness churches independent evangelical congregations Several thousand members
Thailand (Formerly Siam constitutional monarchy)
POPULATION 19 million~ The people are a mixture of races original Thais who come from China one million Laos and several million of Chinese ancestry Languages Thai (Sino-Tibetan language) Annamese Chinese o Buddhism has a powerful hold upon the people Islam is growing in influence
PROTESTANTISM In spite of a century and more of earnest missionary effort chiefly Presbyterian the Protestant community is relatively small between twenty and thirty thousand
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION National Christian Council of Thailand member of LMoC with one voting representative There has been a strong trend toward church union
YOUIDER CHURCHES
Church of Christ in Thailand formally organized in 1934 recognized by the Government as an indigenous body This now embraces Presbyterian Bapshytist (Karen) and Disciples of Christ congregations About 17000 memshybers Member of WCC
Karen Baptist Convention in Thailand 3 associations affiliated with Church of Christ in Thailand Few thousand members
Other small church groups Churches of Christ Christian and Missionary Alliance churches Pentecostal churches Baptist churches Brethren churches churches founded by interdenominational missions About 2000 members
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PACIFIC ISLANDS (Not including Japan Taiwan Philippine Islands and Indonesia)
Bismarck Archipelago (Australian Territory New Britain New Ireland Lavongai Admiralty Islands and many smaller islands)
POPULATION 140000 indigenous population People are Melanesian and Papuan Religion animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY A good beginning has been made in eighty years of missionary effort
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Anglican Church Few hundred members
Lutheran Church Few hundred members
British Borneo (British Protectorate including North Borneo Sarawak Labuan Island)
POPULATION One million PoIynesdan peoples and 250000 Chinese Languages Malay-PolYnesian and Chinese~ Religions primitive tribal religion and Islam
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Strong Anglican and Methodist churches have developed
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Chur-ch Diocese of Borneo (Lebuan and Sarawak About 10000 members
Methodist Church Sarawak Provisional Annual Conference 3 districts Central Conference of Southeastern Asia About 15000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 2500 members
Other church groups about 3000 members
Cook Islands and Nieu (Savage Island) (New Zealand Territory)
POPULATION 28000 Malay-PolYnesian race
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Brought by Christians from other islands and by missionshyaries v Largely Congregational
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Congregational churches About 6000 tlembers Self-governing since 1945
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 400 members
Fiji Islands (British Crown Colony)
POPULATION of the 106 inhabited islands totals about 350000 The natives are mixed Melanesian and Polynesian stocka Over 160000 are immigrant families from India (Hindus and Koslems)~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY was brought by Christians from other islands and by missionaries Today the native population is largely Christian Among the Indian irrndgrants only a small proportion are as yet Christian~
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
The Methodist Church in Fiji (Methodist Church of Australia) About 30000 communicant members community of 100000~
Other church groups Assemblies of God Seventh Day Adventists Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES More than three hundred Fijian missionaries have gone to the aborigines of North Australia New Guinea and the Solomons
French Oceania (French settlements Society Islands Tahiti etc)
POPULATION 60000 Malay-Polynesian race
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Early Protestant missions bore fruit but French control and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic Church has severely limited Prote stant growth and influence in thi s century
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background) About 4000 members v
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (British)
POPULATION 35000 Malay~Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Most of the islanders have become Christians
YOUNGER CHURCHES o
Cong~egational Church About 7000 commilllicant members
Seventh Day Advent ist chur ches About 100 members
New Guli1ea WesterTl New G1L~ea ( I r i an ) See IndonesLa NOrth~asLQL~ ~e~~uiri~a (Trust Territory of United Nations
mandated to Australia) and Papua (Australian territory)
POPULATION 1300000 Papuan tribes and language Tribal religion
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Northeast New Guinea now has the largest and fastest growing Protestant chu~ch body in the South Pacific Papua is forty per cent a Christian community
INTER-GHURCH COOPERATION Protestant Missionary Council is being planned
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Evangelical Lutheran Chu~ch of New Guirlea organized January 13 1956 with its own constitution 165 ~ OOO baptized members increase from 63000 in 1945
Methodist Chur-ch About 15C100 member-s
Congregational ChUTeD About 12000 members
Mennonite Church About 5000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches About 1500 members
Churches founded by interdenominational missions About 5000 members
New Caledonia and Dependencies (Loyalty Islands etc French overseas territory)
POPULATION 65000 including 22 -0nO Europeans Native people and language Malay-Polynesian ROIDaTl Catholcism dominates
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Introduced in the first half of the 19th century but
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hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
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Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
- 66 shy
hindered by strong Roman Catholic influence Small Protestant community
YO UNGER CHURCHES
Reformed Church (French background)~ About 5000 members~
Seventh Day Adventist churches
New Hebrides (~~ndominium jointly administered by France and Great Britain)
POPULATION 60000 Melanesian stock Malay-Polynesian language several dialects Tribal religion and animism increasingly Christian population~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Missionaries of heroic stature such as John Go Paton labored here and their converts have become mission-minded As a result nearly half the population now belongs to the Protestant Christian communityo
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION~
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand~
About 10000 members
Presbyterian Church Autonomous About 5000 members
Churches of Christ About 2000 members
Seventh D~ Adventist churches About 1~000 members
Other church groups Few thousand members
Samoa Islands (New Zealand Territory of Western Samoa American Samoa)
POPULATION 110000 fair-skinned POlYnesians~
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY The Samoans were evangelized by Christians from other islands and by missionaries they themselves have become most mission-minded toward other islands of the Pacific The churches have long been selfshysupporting and are vital in the life of the islands
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Samoan Congregational Church About 15000 members
- 67 shy
Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000
- 67 shy
Methodist Church of Samoa About 6000 members
Anglican Church About 1000 members
Other church groups Seventh Day Adventist churches Assemblies of God Few hundred members
MISSIONARIES FROM YOUNGER CHURCHES For decades native Christian teachers from islands of the eastern Pacific have gone to islands of the western Pacific and to Papua Gilbert-Ellice Islands etc
Solomon Islands (Partly British protectorate partly Australian territory of New Guinea)
POPULATION 150000 Malay-Polynesian people Tribal religion and animism
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY Against severe opposition of the native islanders and by way of many difficulties a Protestant connnunity of 40000 has been planted and nurtured Some villages are entirely Christian
INTER-CHURCH COOPERATION
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Anglican Church Diocese of Melanesia Church of the Province of New Zealand About 10000 members
Methodist Church About 10000 members
Seventh Day Adventist churches about 3000 members Churches founded by interdenominational missions about 5000 members
Tonga or Friendly Islands (Monarchy under British Protectorate)
POPULATION 55000 Polynesian stock
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY About half the inhabitants are now Christian the fruit of missionary work and revivals Methodist churches predominate
YOUNGER CHURCHES
Methodist Churches Wesleyan Church (Methodist Church of Australasia) Community of 25000
Church of Tonga Community of 8000
Free Church of Tonga Community of 10000