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The Zomi Baptist Convention was established in Burma in 1952. Its first Chairman was Rev'd ST. Gou Hau. During the triennial meeting of the Zomi Baptist Convention in Khuasak in April 1995, four associations broke away from the convention to form the new Zomi Baptist Convention of Myanmar: Tonzang Township Baptist Association (TTBA), Tedim Baptist Association (TBA), Kale Zomi Baptist ...
Chin Baptist Convention (formerly Zomi Baptist Convention) is a Baptist Christian denomination in Myanmar. The headquarters is in Falam , Chin State , Myanmar. It is a member of the Myanmar Baptist Convention .
The Zomi Baptist Convention Executive Committee officially gave the name Zomi Baptist Bible School in December 1956. The Schools both in Tedim and in Hakha were conducted on middle school level. Baptist Mission Secretary, E E Sowards, was much concerned for the upgrading of the school into a high school level. And the school was moved from ...
Therefore, David needed to do the Lai Bible translation work together with Johnson on a full-time basis before Johnson left Myanmar. [30] [29] He left the Zomi Baptist Theological School in Falam in 1963. During his principalship years of Zomi Baptist Theological School in Falam, he also served as a part-time Pastor at Falam Baptist Church. [6]
The Tedim people were early adopters of the Zomi identity, founding the Zomi Baptist Convention in 1953, after a careful discussion of nomenclature. [4] According to Khup Za Go, most people called "Chins" by the Burmese do not recognize that name as their identifier, and also feel the Burmese use of it to be abusive or degrading. [5]
The Baptist Convention member, who also spoke on condition of anonymity for safety reasons, said that the three were taken after being told they needed to answer a few questions. No further ...
He is the only Zomi prince whom the neighboring Meitei Kingdom ever acknowledged as Raja (or Ningthou in Metei language). His powerful dominion included over seventy cities, towns, and villages. [82] He became known as the leader of all Zo people. [83] Pau Cin Hau was a Zomi prophet who lived around 1859.
Zomi is a collective identity adopted by some of the Kuki-Chin language-speaking people in India and Myanmar. The term means "Zo people". The groups adopting the Zomi identity reject the conventional labels "Kuki" and "Chin", popularised during the British Raj, as colonial impositions. Even though "Zomi" was originally coined as an all ...