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In 2023, Christians as a group make up 0.06% of the country's population. [4] The World Christian Encyclopedia, Second edition, Volume 1, states that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church are the largest denominations in Yemen. A 2015 study estimated that there were 400 Christians from a Muslim background in the country. [5]
Christian presence in Yemen goes back to the fourth century AD to hold a number of Himyarites believers due to the efforts of Theophilos the Indian.Currently, there are no official statistics on their numbers, but estimated at between 3,000 and 25,000 people, [8] and most of them are refugees or temporary residents.
Three nuns who were members of the Missionaries of Charity were killed in Hodeida 1998. [5] In the same year, Yemen and the Vatican established diplomatic relations. [4] On 4 March 2016, terrorists of uncertain affiliation attacked a Catholic home for the elderly in Aden, killing sixteen people including four missionary sisters of the Missionaries of Charity and some local Muslim workers.
Pages in category "Christian missionaries in Yemen" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. I. Theophilos the Indian
1904 – European Christian Mission was founded in Estonia by J.P. Raud. Today it is known as European Christian Mission International. 1905 – Gunnerius Tollefsen is converted at a Salvation Army meeting under the preaching of Samuel Logan Brengle.
Avant Ministries (formerly known as Gospel Missionary Union) is a non-profit, Christian mission agency focused on planting and developing churches worldwide. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Avant missionaries serve in church planting and church support ministries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America.
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Five missionaries were sent to Egypt in 1825. The CMS concentrated the Mediterranean Mission on the Coptic Church and in 1830 to its daughter Ethiopian Church, which included the creation of a translation of the Bible in Amharic at the instigation of William Jowett, as well as the posting of two missionaries to Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Samuel Gobat (later the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem) [4] and ...