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Religion In Tokelau
The vast majority of people in Tokelau are Christians and Christianity plays a significant role in the Tokelauan way of life. History Missionaries preached Christianity in Tokelau from 1845 to the 1860s. France, French Catholic Church, Roman Catholic missionaries on Wallis Island (also known as 'Uvea) and missionaries of the Protestant London Missionary Society in Samoa used native teachers to convert the Tokelauans. Atafu was converted to Protestantism by the London Missionary Society, Nukunonu was converted to Catholicism and Fakaofo was converted to both denominations. Since 1992 the Roman Catholic Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau has represented the Catholic church in Tokelau. Denominations In 2006, all people who answered the religion question on the Tokelauan census gave one of the major Christian denominations as their religion. In 2011, 58.5% of respondents belonged to the Congregational church, Congregational Christian denomination and over one-third of respondents (36.8%) be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokelau Nukuono Church 20070716
Tokelau (; ; known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean. It consists of three tropical coral atolls: Atafu, Nukunonu, and Fakaofo. They have a combined land area of . The capital rotates yearly among the three atolls. In addition to these three, Swains Island, which forms part of the same archipelago, is the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute; it is currently administered by the United States as part of American Samoa. Tokelau lies north of the Samoan Islands, east of Tuvalu, south of the Phoenix Islands, southwest of the more distant Line Islands, and northwest of the Cook Islands. Tokelau has a population of approximately 1,500 people; it has the fourth-smallest population of any sovereign state or dependency in the world. As of the 2016 census, around 45% of its residents had been born overseas, mostly in Samoa or New Zealand. The populace has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
