Protestantism in Burma

The Protestants in Myanmar ( formerly Burma) have a share of only 3% of the population.

Almost half of the Protestants are in the Myanmar Baptist Convention, which in 2003 had about 63,000 members. The Myanmar Baptist Convention has been around since 1865 and has 3513 church building. The largest member organization, the Karen Baptist Convention. The Myanmar Baptist Convention in 1992 founded an AIDS Commission with 32 members; In 1985, the Christian Reformed Church was founded in Myanmar, which is one of 50 municipalities. In Insein, the Myanmar Institute of Theology is located.

History

Adoniram Judson was the first North American missionary in Burma. He came in the second decade of the 19th century to Burma. 1820 there were 10 converts in Burma. In the first English- Burmese War Judson was imprisoned. After his release, the membership of the Baptists grew rapidly. Growth was high especially in animistic tribes. Judson himself died in 1850; This year, lived later in 8000 Myanmar Baptists, almost all in the British area in the southeast and in Karen southwest. George Gough, the first printing printed in Burma in Burmese, which included 800 copies of Matthew's Gospel. It was in the 20th century, many cases of forced conversion of Christians to Buddhism.

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• Protestants in Burma on persecution.net

• Christianity in Myanmar
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