The Bethel Mission, also known as Berlin III, ''Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika'' (EMDOA), or ''Berliner Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Ostafrika'' was a

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-based

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initiated by

Karl Peters Carl Peters (27 September 1856 – 10 September 1918), was a German colonial ruler, explorer, politician and author and a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa (part of the modern republic Tanzania). Life ...

in German East Africa with a ''uniert'' religious doctrine. From its founding in 1886 until 1891 the mission was limited to the

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coast; it was then led by

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior Friedrich Christian Carl von Bodelschwingh (* 6 March 1831 in Tecklenburg; † 2 April 1910 in Bielefeld-Bethel), better known as Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder, was a German theologian and politician. He is remembered as the founder of th ...

of the

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. In October 1905 the society created Mkoma Mbuli (The Storyteller), a Shambala monthly, which probably continued publication until 1914.

References

{{authority control History of German East Africa Protestantism in Tanzania