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The
United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is a merged denomination dating from
1968 consisting of the former
London Missionary Society (operating exclusively in Papua), the relatively marginal
Presbyterian church (largely confined to
Port Moresby itself) and the
Methodist mission (largely operating in the
New Guinea Islands, the western and northern
Solomons and the islands of eastern
Papua).
History
The formation of the United Church pre-dates the merger of its corresponding (and missionary parent) denominations in Australia in
1977 in the
Uniting Church in Australia but such cross-denominational mergers were common throughout the
20th century, particularly in Commonwealth countries: for example, the United Church of Northern India (1924) (now merged in the later and wider
Church of North India,
Church of Pakistan and
Church of Bangladesh); the
United Church of Canada (1925) and the
Church of South India (1947). It is particularly strong on the Papuan coast, the
Southern Highlands, eastern
Papua, the
New Guinea Islands (including
Bougainville, also known as the North Solomons) and the Western Solomons.
Local and overseas affiliations
The United Church is a member of the
Papua New Guinea Council of Churches, Melanesian Council of Churches and the
World Council of Churches. In matters of social policy it tends as with its sister denominations in other
Commonwealth countries to be largely in accord with the
Anglican and
Lutheran churches.
Traditionally many of the United Church's personnel were recruited from earlier-established Methodist and Congregationalist churches in
Fiji,
Samoa and
Tonga and the United Church continues to have close relations with sister churches in these neighbouring island countries. Its theology and social policy tends to be somewhat more akin to these theologically conservative neighbouring countries' long-established evangelical Protestant churches than to those in Australia. On the other hand the Church is considerably more broad-minded in such matters than more recently arrived
fundamentalist groups and it maintains the historic Methodist and Congregational strong emphasis on education and literacy in the broadest sense. As with the Anglican and Lutheran churches, the United Church has suffered some attrition in recent decades as a result of aggressive proselytising among its constituents by fundamentalist and
pentecostalist groups originating in the
United States of America and to a lesser extent
Australia.
Many of Papua New Guinea's leaders have had a United Church background.
Eminent United Churchmen and Churchwomen
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