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The Protestant Church of Westphalia (German: Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen, EKvW) is a United Protestant church body in North Rhine-Westphalia. Lutheran Church of Westphalia The seat of the praeses ( German : Präses , the head of the church) is Bielefeld .
The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia (in Slovak Evanjelická cirkev augsburského vyznania na Slovensku, ECAV) is the only Lutheran church in Slovakia. The Church is a member of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Slovakia, [ 2 ] and the Lutheran World Federation (Central Eastern Europe Region).
The LDS Church gained a formal presence in Liberia on 3 July 1987 with the arrival of J. Duffy Palmer and his wife, Jocelyn, as the church's first full-time missionaries in the country. The origins of the LDS Church in Liberia go back about two years farther.
All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC, Conférence des Églises de toute l'Afrique or CETA) is an ecumenical fellowship that represents more than 200 million African Christians in 210 national churches and regional Christian councils in 43 African Countries. [1] AACC's head office is in Nairobi, Kenya, and there is a regional office in Lomé ...
In 1982, Chico Mapenda, who was 13 years old at the time, left Mozambique to study in the German Democratic Republic.In 1989, he came across missionaries there and was baptized on January 14, 1990.
In 2012, The New York Times profiled an LDS Church missionary, Jared Dangerfield, as he served in Uganda, "Each day he rises with the African sun to say his prayers before venturing into the urban wilderness of Kampala, Uganda, a churning kaleidoscope of motorcycles, street urchins, vegetable carts and pterodactyl-like storks that circle office ...
The seat of the church is in Bremen. It is a full member of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), and is a United church combining both Lutheran and Reformed traditions. Brigitte Boehme became the church's first female president in 2001. The church had 176,786 members as of December 2020 [1] in 68 parishes. Laic presidency is one of the ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates 449 missions [1] throughout the world, as of June 2024. Most are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city.