Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon

The HIV / AIDS unit run by the Evangelical Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon ( English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon , abbreviated OSEELC, French L'Eglise Evangélique Luthérienne au Cameroun ) is a Protestant church in Cameroon .

It was founded during the German colonial period in German Cameroon as the Cameroon section of the Evangelical Church in Germany .

The Church was active in Cameroon in the 19th and especially in the 20th century and was responsible for working with other institutions to follow developments in Cameroon. One such program, in which the Evangelical Church was involved, was the establishment of the Protestant Hospital of Ngaundere in the 1950s. Today they are still associated with the HIV / AIDS section of the hospital.

The Church has 250,035 baptized members.

Web links

Official website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon. In: oseelc.org (French)

Individual evidence

↑ LWF statistics 2009 ( Memento of August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), p. 6 [= 2 of 9] (on Cameroon). In: lutheranworld.org, accessed on February 13, 2017 (PDF; 191 kB; English).

[1] LWF statistics 2009 ( Memento of August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), p. 6 [= 2 of 9] (on Cameroon). In: lutheranworld.org, accessed on February 13, 2017 (PDF; 191 kB; English).