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| Keywords: Church of the Brethren map.svg A map of the international presence of the Church of the Brethren past and present Una mapa de la Iglesia de los Hermanos pasado y presente own 2010-04-10 Koavf Public domain Based on File BlankMap-World6 svg also in the public domain ImageNote 1 93 186 757 516 2753 1538 2 The United States black is the home of the Church of the Brethren Several churches are also present in Puerto Rico black ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 733 609 31 62 2753 1538 2 Missions have been open in Haiti since 2003 ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 740 729 306 378 2753 1538 2 Missions began in Brazil in the 1950s ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 767 595 28 72 2753 1538 2 Puerto Rico first sent missionaries to the Dominican Republic in 1979 ImageNoteEnd 4 ImageNote 5 678 750 45 117 2753 1538 2 Several Protestant churches began work in Ecuador through the United Andean Indian Mission in 1946 The Church of the Brethren arrived in 1963 and these bodies merged into the United Evangelical Church of Ecuador in 1965 renamed the Evangelical Methodist Church of Ecuador in 1999 ImageNoteEnd 5 ImageNote 6 781 977 124 282 2753 1538 2 Missions work in Argentina was mostly concentrated in the Córdoba Province for a few years in the middle of the 20th century ImageNoteEnd 6 ImageNote 7 1301 581 131 114 2753 1538 2 Work in Niger was initiated by Nigerian Brethren after a 1972 �73 drought ImageNoteEnd 7 ImageNote 8 1290 674 124 93 2753 1538 2 Missions in Nigeria began in 1923 and membership exploded after the Second World War Today Nigeria has slightly more Brethren than the United States concentrated in the eastern states of Borno and Gongrola as well as Oku Cameroon ImageNoteEnd 8 ImageNote 9 1469 599 120 189 2753 1538 2 Brethren have been working with refugees in Southern Sudan since the 1980s ImageNoteEnd 9 ImageNote 10 1359 220 107 117 2753 1538 2 Missions begun by the Danish-American preacher Christian Hope had modest success in northern Denmark and southern Sweden starting in the late 1870s and lasting through World War II ImageNoteEnd 10 ImageNote 11 1266 361 120 93 2753 1538 2 Dutchman G J Fercken had small missions in France and Switzerland in the first two decades of the 20th century ImageNoteEnd 11 ImageNote 12 1827 334 396 310 2753 1538 2 Brethren assisted in China magenta during a 1918 plague and a famine from the early 1920s After the invasion of China by the Japanese in 1937 Brethren attempted to establish a lasting presence but their effectiveness vacillated with government interference and social stability Chinese Brethren got absorbed into the house church and mainstream Protestant movements in the 1970s and 1980s ImageNoteEnd 12 ImageNote 13 1796 492 227 241 2753 1538 2 Brethren first established themselves in the Indian state of Gujarat in 1894 and eventually merged with several other Protestant groups in 1970 to form the Church of North India A single Brethren church refused membership and maintains ties to the United States Church of the Brethren as of 2010 ImageNoteEnd 13 ImageNote 14 1483 423 145 86 2753 1538 2 After hearing about the Armenian/Assyrian Genocide in 1917 Brethren set up a small mission in İstanbul which lasted until 1921 ImageNoteEnd 14 ImageNote 15 2006 733 372 182 2753 1538 2 Brethren briefly had missions in the eastern archipelagos of Ambon and Sulawesi in the mid-20th century ImageNoteEnd 15 ImageNote 16 1242 416 76 72 2753 1538 2 Spain received recognition from the denominational board in 2013 ImageNoteEnd 16 Maps with Robinson projection Protestant distribution maps of the world SVG maps of the world Church of the Brethren Map | ||||
