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1872 · The Northeast

The Naga Awakening (E. W. Clark)

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The Naga Awakening (E. W. Clark)
Jungshi, Wikimedia Commons (Edwin & Mary Clark), CC BY-SA 3.0 — source

In December 1872 the American Baptist E. W. Clark reached the Ao Naga village of Molungkimong and helped gather its first church. It was the seed of a movement that, over the century that followed, would make Nagaland one of the most Christian places on earth.

Baptist mission histories (Clark, Sword) — older works public domain; modern studies cited only.

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