Sentence examples for indigenous church from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

This term in the above table denotes Catholics (non-Roman), marginal Protestants, crypto-Christians, and adherents of African, Asian, Black, and Latin-American indigenous churches.

And the Catholic Church, faced with huge losses to the people-friendly Pentecostals and new indigenous churches, might soon regret its policy of robbing Africa and Latin America of their already inadequate supplies of priests to serve the relatively priest-rich United States.

Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), ( Tagalog: "Church of Christ") Cristo also spelled Kristo, international Christian religious movement that constitutes the largest indigenous Christian church in the Philippines.

Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), (Tagalog: "Church of Christ")Cristo also spelled Kristo, international Christian religious movement that constitutes the largest indigenous Christian church in the Philippines.

Consisting of ca. 900 original photographs, printed materials, rare books, and other artifactshis, the collection pays particular attention to cross-cultural interactions between China and the West, the growth of Christianity in China in the early 20th century, and the development of the indigenous Chinese church.