European Baptist Federation
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The European Baptist Federation (EBF) is a federation of 51 Baptist associations and is one of six regional fellowships in the Baptist World Alliance. The EBF was founded in Ruschlikon, Switzerland in 1949. It lays a great deal of emphasis on human rights, religious liberty and aid programs. The Federation represents about 12,000 congregations of Baptists with over 800,000 members.
Members
In October of 2003, the bodies from the following countries were members of the European Baptist Federation:
- Albania
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Europe and Middle East
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Hungary
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Republic of Macedonia
- Moldova
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Scotland
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Ukraine
- Wales
- Yugoslavia
Reference
Crossing the Boundaries - The story of Fifty Years of the European Baptist Federation, by Bernard Green
External links
- European Baptist Federation (http://www.ebf.org/) - Official Web Sitede:Europäisch-Baptistische Föderation