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1894–1899 · The Northeast

The First Mizo Believers

Documented

Portrait to be added — find a public-domain image on Wikimedia Commons

Welsh and Baptist missionaries entered the Lushai (Mizo) Hills in 1894, and in 1899 the first two Mizo believers, Khuma and Khara, were baptised. Within a few generations these once-remote hills became one of the most thoroughly Christian regions of India.

Mizoram Presbyterian and Baptist church histories — well-documented, cited.

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