The Baptist Convention of Malawi is a

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Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

. It is affiliated with the

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. The headquarters is in

Lilongwe Lilongwe (, , ) is the capital and most populated city of the African country of Malawi. It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 in 2008. In 2020 that figure was 1,122,000. The city is located in th ...

History

The Baptist Convention of Malawi has its origins in an American mission of the

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in 1959. It is officially founded in 1970. According to a denomination census released in 2020, it claimed 2,000 churches and 300,000 members. Baptist World Alliance
Members
baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved December 5, 2020

References

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