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)
“The old ideals are dead as nails—nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman—sort of ultimate marriage—and there isn’t anything else.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“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)