Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika

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The Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrica (German: Evangelical Missionary Society for German East Africa), also known as 'Berlin III' or the Bethel Mission^[1] was a Berlin-based Protestant mission initiated by Karl Peters in German East Africa with a uniert religious doctrine^[1]. From its founding in 1886^[2] until 1891 the mission was limited to the Indian Ocean coast; it was then led by Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior of the Bethel Institution.^[1]

In October 1905 the society created Mkoma Mbuli (The Storyteller), a Shambala monthly, which probably continued publication until 1914.^[3]

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1. ^ ^{a b c} Fiedler, Klaus (1996). Christianity and African Culture: Conservative German Protestant Missionaries in Tanzania, 1900-1940. BRILL, 64-66. ISBN 9004052437. 
2. ^ (German) Meyers Konversationslexikon
3. ^ The Press of German East Africa (1890 - 1916)

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