Baptists in Macedonia: From The Beginning to The Dawn of Regeneration 1970
Abstract
The beginnings of the Baptist Church in Macedonia resulted from an administrative change
from Congregationalism through Methodism into Baptist in order to survive the immense
contextual pressure, rather than as a result of Baptist mission. The hostility towards the Protestant
missions in the newly formed Kingdom of Serbians, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed
Yugoslavia) after World War I made the life of the churches in the south of the Kingdom hardly
possible. Groups of believers from Skopje and Radoviš, seeking ways to survive, became Baptist
in 1928 and in 1930, respectively, as the Baptists were mentioned in the Constitution as one of the
faith groups that had equal rights. During the next forty-five years, the two churches struggled in
the especially hostile environment toward the Evangelicals in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and later
in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 30, 2012
Submission Date
May 26, 2017
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2012 Volume: 3 Number: 2