Protestantism in Myanmar
The Protestants in Myanmar (formerly Burma ) make up 3% of the population.
Almost half of the Protestants are in the Myanmar Baptist Convention , which had about 63,000 members in 2003. The Myanmar Baptist Convention has been around since 1865 and has 3513 church buildings. The largest affiliate is the Karen Baptist Convention . The Myanmar Baptist Convention founded an AIDS commission with 32 members in 1992 ; In 1985 the Christian Reformed Church was founded in Myanmar , which has 50 congregations. The Myanmar Institute of Theology is located in Insein .
history
Adoniram Judson was the first North American missionary in Burma. He came to Burma in the 2nd decade of the 19th century. In 1820 there were 10 converts in Burma. In the first English-Burmese War Judson was imprisoned. After his release, Baptist membership grew rapidly. The growth was particularly high among animist tribes. Judson himself died in 1850; that year there were 8,000 Baptists in what was to become Myanmar , almost all of them in the British area in the south-east and in the Karen south-west. George Gough printed the first printed works in Burma in Burmese, including 800 copies of the Gospel of Matthew . There have been many incidents of forced conversion of Christians to Buddhism in the 20th century.