Most Alexandrians, like most Egyptians, are Sunni Muslims; the city's Christian minority consists mainly of members of the indigenous church of Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Chinese Christians (no longer labelled as native) lobbied for independence, laying the foundation for an indigenous church, which survived the Communist Revolution.
Having facilitated the establishment of British rule in northern New Guinea (1888), Chalmers strove to form an indigenous church free of westernized culture but was killed and eaten by cannibals on an island off the south coast of Papua.
Yet she can also be seen as a forerunner of 20th-century missionary thinking in her commitment to working through the Chinese - a move that roused real fears she might pave the way for an indigenous church.
In practice, the Chinese police in the border region -- many who are ethnic Koreans themselves -- often turn a blind eye to the migrants, who are assisted by many of the indigenous church groups in the area.
For instance, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, started not by missionaries but as an indigenous church in Nigeria, has grown to 5 million members in 147 countries, including 720 congregations in the United States.
Reconcile, which has trained hundreds of people in conflict analysis and leadership, was established in 2003 by indigenous church groups to push a faith-based vision for South Sudan, which has a population of approximately 11m people – 60% of whom are Christians, 32% holding traditional beliefs such as animism, and roughly 6% are Muslims.
African independent, or indigenous nonwhite, churches proliferated, and several of the largest ones joined the World Council of Churches.
In the 18th century and increasingly in the 19th, European and North American Lutherans undertook missions throughout the globe, leading to the establishment of indigenous Lutheran churches in many countries.
