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The Brotherhood of Independent Baptist Churches and Ministries of Ukraine is an association of Baptist Christian churches.
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It was officially founded and registered in Ukraine in 1993.
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The Brotherhood of Independent Baptist Churches and Ministries of Ukraine is an association of Baptist Christian churches.
It was officially founded and registered in Ukraine in 1993.
The foundation of this new Baptist Union was organized and initiated by a group of churches, which for nearly thirty years had been active members of the Union of Churches movement. Among these churches-initiators there were churches of the Union of Baptist Churches in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khartsyzk, Kharkiv, Rivne, Zdolbuniv, etc. Today, the Brotherhood includes more than 100 communities and about 11,000 members.
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Protestants in Ukraine number about 600,000 to 700,000 (2007), about 2% of the total population. Nearly all traditional Protestant denominations are represented in the country. According to Christianity Today magazine, Ukraine has become not just the "Bible Belt" of Eastern Europe, but a "hub of evangelical church life, education, and missions". At present, the country is a key supplier of missionaries and a center of evangelical training and press printing for all the countries of the former Soviet Union, where the legal environment is not so favourable.
Protestants composed less than 1% of the population of Tajikistan in 2020. There is a Lutheran congregation in Dushanbe. There are about 3,000 evangelicals, who mainly are of Russian origin. The Constitution provides for religious freedom. There are Methodist and Seventh-day Adventist congregations in Tajikistan. Many Christians are from South Asia. According to the European Baptist Federation, government officials view the nation's Christians in the same light as militant Muslims.
The Baptist Church in Ukraine is one of the oldest and most widespread Evangelical Christian denominations in the country. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, over half the 1.5 million acknowledged Baptists and Pentecostals in the USSR lived in Soviet Ukraine. Prior to its independence in 1991, Ukraine was home to the second largest Baptist community in the world, after the United States, and was called the "Bible Belt" of the Soviet Union.
The Shtundists are the predecessors of several Evangelical Protestant groups in Ukraine and across the former Soviet Union.
Brotherhoods were non-monastic organisations of Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic citizens or lay brothers affiliated with individual autocephalous churches. Some of their focus was of an evangelical or theological character, but much of their activities were in fact secular. Their structure resembled that of medieval confraternities and trade guilds, and can be characterized as the Orthodox equivalent of Catholic religious orders. Beginning in the western Ukrainian lands, they became common in the cities throughout the Ruthenian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth such as Lviv, Vilnius, Lutsk, Vitebsk, Minsk, and Kyiv.