The first missionaries came to Southeast Sulawesi in the 1880s. Around 1900 the Protestant church had congregations in this part of the island, consisting of army officers and military. The Protestant mission effort began in 1916, but only a small percentage of native inhabitants became Christian. During World War II, the congregations suffered under the Japanese. In 1950 several church workers were killed by Muslim guerillas. Later the political situation stabilized. Christianity increased in the last 30 years. [1] The church has 89 congregations and 30,000 members. [2] It is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. [3]
Southeast Sulawesi is a province on the island of Sulawesi, forming the southeastern peninsula of that island, together with a number of large offshore islands such as Buton, Muna, Kabaena and Wawonii, with smaller islands. The capital is Kendari, on the east coast of the peninsula.
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The Central Sulawesi Christian Church is the largest Christian church in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the reformed family of churches. The church was established in the early 1893 through the mission work of the Dutch Reformed Church and became an independent denomination in 1947 when Indonesia declared its independence from the Netherlands and ordered all Dutch nationals to go home. November 1993, there was in Tentena a celebration feast for 100 years Christianity.
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