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Latin America contains approximately 17.5% of the world's Quakers. Latin American Friends are concentrated in Bolivia and Central America. Most of these Friends are evangelical and are affiliated with Evangelical Friends Church International. Friends World Committee for Consultation organizes among them through the ''Comité de Amigos Latinoamericanos CoAL del Comité Mundial de Consulta de Los Amigos'' CMCA FWCC. == Bolivia and southern South America == There are about 30,000 Friends in Bolivia. Quakerism came to Bolivia in 1919 through a Navajo man, William Abel, who sold Bibles and preached in the capital city of La Paz. Bolivian Juan Ayllón became convinced of the truth of the preacher's message and went to study at the Friends' Biblical Institute in Guatemala. After graduating in 1924 he returned and began the Evangelical Friends Church. This yearly meeting, now INELA-BOLIVIA, Iglesia Nacional Evangélica de Los Amigos, consists of 192 congregations throughout Bolivia and sponsors several schools. Also during 1919 the Holiness Friends Mission, an association of independent Indiana Friends, established meetings in Bolivia's northern Andes surrounding Sorata village. When the mission reorganized as Central Friends Mission in 1952 the Bolivian meetings divided into two Yearly Meetings— ''Junta Anual de Amigos Central'' (Bolivian Friends YM), and Holiness Friends (''Junta Anual de Misión Santidad de Los Amigos de Bolivia''). At first, Bolivian Yearly Meetings consisted only of members of Aymara heritage. Aymara Friends are now working among Quechua, Mosetain, Chimani, and other tribal groups. Yearly Meetings include ''Iglesia Evangélica Amigos Central'' (semi-programmed congregations in the Friends Church related to Central YM), ''Iglesia Evangélica Unión Boliviana "Amigos"'' (Bolivian Union Evangelical Friends Church), ''Iglesia Nacional Evangélica Los Amigos de Bolivia'' (National Evangelical Friends Church of Bolivia) or INELA-Bolivia, and ''Iglesia Evangélica Misión Boliviana de Santidad Amigos'' (Bolivian Evangelical Mission of Holiness Friends Church). In Peru there are about 5,000 Friends; they are a part of INELA-Perú ''Iglesia Nacional Evangélica Los Amigos del Perú'' (National Evangelical Friends Church of Peru), an outgrowth of INELA-Bolivia. This church has grown through extensive youth outreach. Bolivian Friends are also supporting missions in northwest Argentina, especially among indigenous people there. Two other small Friends groups exist in Bolivia: ''Iglesia Nacional Evangélica 'Estrella de Belén'', ''Iglesia Nacional Evangélica 'Seminario Bíblico'' are beginning to cooperate with the other Yearly Meetings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quakers in Latin America」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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