The Baptist Union of Papua New Guinea is a fellowship of Baptists in New Guinea.
The Baptist Union is a member of the Baptist World Alliance. Structurally, it is divided into three unions under the main body. In the area of strength of the Baptist Union - three districts in Papua New Guinea - eighty percent of the population are Baptists. In 1998, there were 360 congregations in the Union, with over 35,000 members.
Famous quotes containing the words baptist, union and/or guinea:
“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ‘20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“And thus they sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)