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The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia.
The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is a Calvinist denomination founded by Ian Paisley in 1951. Doctrinally, the church describes itself as fundamentalist, evangelical, and separatist, and is part of the reformed fundamentalist movement. Most of its members live in Northern Ireland, where the church is headquartered, and in County Donegal. The church has additional congregations in the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain and Australia, and a sister denomination in North America, the Free Presbyterian Church of North America, which has congregations in Canada and the United States. It also has a sister denomination in Nepal which was formed from the Nepal mission to the Unreached in November 2013.
Igreja Presbiteriana de Moçambique is one of the largest Protestant denominations of Mozambique.
The Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands is a Protestant church in the Netherlands.
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The East Africa Christian Alliance (EACA) is a fundamentalist organization and regional arm of the International Council of Christian Churches, set up in opposition to the All Africa Conference of Churches. The current chairman is Bishop Richard Kivai.
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- ↑ "Reformed Bible College & Technical School Mwingi, Kenya". Reformed Bible College & Technical School Mwingi, Kenya. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ↑ "Minister's Message – August 2012" (PDF). Pceasydney.org.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
- ↑ "Reformed Bible College & Technical School Mwingi, Kenya". Reformed Bible College & Technical School Mwingi, Kenya. Archived from the original on 2013-06-15. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ↑ "Faith College of the Bible - Affiliation". Archived from the original on 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2013-06-10.