About 25 missionaries reached approximately 1,500 Muslims and 205 were baptized into the Christian faith in three months in 1998. More missionaries and lay leaders are being trained to reach Muslims. Ethiopian evangelicals are sending missionaries to other nations. Ten missionaries went to India for three months in 1998 to preach the Gospel, the leader said. Indian churches were skeptical, but soon embraced the evangelists, and more than 1,300 Indians became Christians.
Ethiopian missionaries are at work in several other African nations.
Those with differing doctrinal foundations, such as Baptists and Pentecostals, overcame their differences during the time of persecution. There are more than 250,000 evangelicals in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the leader said. More than 97,000 people attended Luis Palau's evangelistic campaign in Monterrey, Mexico, March 13-18, the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association said. About 12,000 children and adults professed faith in Christ at rallies, outreaches by local churches, and other events. 479 women became Christians at evangelistic breakfast and luncheon meetings, it said.