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WCC ACCEPTS NINE NEW CHURCHES INTO MEMBERSHIP


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Date 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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