Igreja União Baptista de Moçambique
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Igreja União Baptista de Moçambique (United Baptist Church of Mozambique) is one of two Baptist denominations in Mozambique
-- the other being the Baptist Convention (Convenção Baptista). It exists since 1921 and the founding of a mission by the Swedish "Scandinavian Independent Mission" in Lourenço Marques / Maputo. In 1959 it took under its wing the Nauela mission in the Zambezia province, something which brought it some 20'00 believers. It claims today to have 200,000 members nationwide, something which (if true) would make it the largest Protestant church in Mozambique.
- Eric Morier-Genoud, « Arquivos,, historiografia e igrejas evangelicas em Moçambique », Estudos Moçambicanos, Maputo: Université Eduardo Mondlane, n°19, 2001, pp. 137-154
- A.W. Wardin (ed.), Baptists around the World. A Comprehensive Handbook, Nashville (Tennessee), Broadman & Holdman Publishers, 1995 : 52, 53, 413.
- E. Hanson & B. Wennberg, Mission Genom Hundra År, Tidaholm (Sweden), Fribaptisamfundets Förlag, 1991.
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
-- the other being the Baptist Convention (Convenção Baptista). It exists since 1921 and the founding of a mission by the Swedish "Scandinavian Independent Mission" in Lourenço Marques / Maputo. In 1959 it took under its wing the Nauela mission in the Zambezia province, something which brought it some 20'00 believers. It claims today to have 200,000 members nationwide, something which (if true) would make it the largest Protestant church in Mozambique.
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Reference
- Eric Morier-Genoud, « Archives, historiographie et églises évangéliques au Mozambique », Lusotopie, Paris: Karthala, 2000, pp. 621-630.- Eric Morier-Genoud, « Arquivos,, historiografia e igrejas evangelicas em Moçambique », Estudos Moçambicanos, Maputo: Université Eduardo Mondlane, n°19, 2001, pp. 137-154
- A.W. Wardin (ed.), Baptists around the World. A Comprehensive Handbook, Nashville (Tennessee), Broadman & Holdman Publishers, 1995 : 52, 53, 413.
- E. Hanson & B. Wennberg, Mission Genom Hundra År, Tidaholm (Sweden), Fribaptisamfundets Förlag, 1991.