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International Council of Community Churches: Community Church movement Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad: Reformed (Presbyterian) Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American diocese Oriental Orthodox Mar Thoma Church: Reformed Moravian Church in America: Moravian National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Baptist (Historically Black) Orthodox Church ...
ICOMB was originally conceived by leaders of MBMS International (now known as "Multiply") at an international mission consultation in Curitiba, Brazil in 1988. ICOMB functions as a framework for Mennonite Brethren conferences (national associations of congregations) worldwide to relate as peers rather than as mission churches under the ...
Plymouth Brethren divided into two branches in 1848: Exclusive Brethren. Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, also known as Raven-Taylor-Hales Brethren; Local churches (affiliation), also known as Church Assembly Hall; Open Brethren. Gospel Hall Brethren, also known as Gospel Hall Assemblies; Needed Truth Brethren, also known as Churches of God
Christians who meet in Gospel Halls generally hold that a scriptural Christian assembly should avoid the use of a "sectarian" name (the name "Gospel Hall Assemblies" is a Wikipedia designation, and they are often called “Plymouth Brethren”, though members of this tradition are not in communion with other Plymouth Brethren who organized the ...
Expansion across the continent and changes due to the Industrial Revolution caused strain and conflict among the Brethren. In the early 1880s a major schism took place resulting in a three-way split: The traditional Old German Baptist Brethren, the progressive Brethren Church, and the conservative German Baptist Brethren, who later changed their name to the Church of the Brethren in 1908.
The International Congress Calendar is a calendar of events organized by non-profit international organizations, mainly those organizations which are included in the Yearbook of International Organizations. It has been published since 1960 by the Union of International Associations (UIA) and includes over 425,000 meetings. Over 15,000 new ...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. [1] Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Union of Utrecht, the Lutheran World Federation, the Anglican Communion, the Mennonite churches, the ...
Logo of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches Emmanuel Baptist Church in Wolfsburg, affiliated with the Union.. The Union of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany (Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinden, BEFG; Baptist and Brethren congregations) has its origins in the first Baptist church in Hamburg founded by the German missionary Johann Gerhard Oncken in 1834.