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In Mozambique, the UCCSA operates under the Portuguese name Igreja Congregacional Unida do Africa do Sul, with the central office located in Maputo. [3] The Mozambique Synod traces its origins back to the first evangelist, Rev. Edwin Richards, sent in 1880 by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
The UPCSA ordains both men and women as ministers and elders, a position inherited from the predecessor body, the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa. [3] The church defines marriage as exclusively heterosexual, between one man and one woman, and instructs ministers to not perform same-sex marriages. [4]
The Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ is a Christian confession of faith written in 1959 to express the common faith of the newly founded United Church of Christ, formed in 1957 by the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church with the Congregational Christian Churches.
The United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (commonly referred as UCCZ) belongs to the Reformed family of churches and was created by the work of the American Board of Foreign Missions of the United Church of Christ (USA). [1]
Adams College is a historic Christian mission school in South Africa, associated with the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA). It was founded in 1853 at Amanzimtoti a settlement just over 20 miles (32 km) south of Durban by an American missionary.
Christian amendment describes any of several attempts to amend a country's constitution in order to officially make it a Christian state.. In the United States, the most significant attempt to amend the United States Constitution by inserting explicitly Christian ideas and language began during the American Civil War and was spearheaded by the National Reform Association.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa is a Lutheran church in South Africa.The church has 580,000 baptized members [2] in seven dioceses in South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini, and is (by a wide margin) the largest Lutheran church in the southern African region.
Framers of the Constitution. National Archives and Records Administration. pp. 235–241. ISBN 978-0-911333-43-5. Myers, Denys P. (1961). "History of the Printed Archetype". The Constitution of the United States of America. Congressional Serial Set. No. 12349. S. Doc. No. 49, 87th Cong., 1st Sess. United States Government Printing Office.