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WCC ACCEPTS NINE NEW CHURCHES INTO MEMBERSHIP
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04 May 1996 20:32:38
21-Sep-95
95334 WCC ACCEPTS NINE NEW CHURCHES INTO MEMBERSHIP
by Jerry L. Van Marter
GENEVA--At its Sept. 14-22 meeting here, the World Council of Churches
(WCC) Central Committee approved the applications of nine churches for
membership in the international ecumenical body. The new member churches
are:
Eglise Baptiste Camerounaise (Native Baptist Church of Cameroon):
founded in 1845 by British Baptist missionaries; 55,000 members in 500
parishes.
Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church: founded by German and Swedish
Lutheran missionaries prior to World War I; 15,000 members in 72
congregations.
Missao Evangelica Pentecostal de Angola (Evangelical Pentecostal
Mission of Angola): has been an associate member of the WCC since 1985;
78,640 members.
Evangelical Reformed Church of Angola: founded in 1925 by
missionaries from England and Switzerland; 70,000 members and 120 pastors.
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa: result of a 1994 merger
of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church and the Dutch Reformed Church in
Africa.
Christian Church of East Timor: begun by American missionaries in
1976; 25,000 members, 15 ministers, 60 lay preachers and 84 congregations.
Protestant Church in Sabah, Malaysia: has been an associate member
of the WCC since 1975; 28,000 members in 360 congregations.
Jamaica Baptist Union: founded in 1849 after 75 years of missionary
activity by American and English missionaries; 36,800 members, 100 pastors
and 296 congregations.
Anglican Province of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Peru,
Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay): former dioceses of the Church of England that
formed their own church in 1992; total membership of 30,000.
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