BMS World Mission

Mozambique

Stats
Region: Africa
Capital: Maputo
Area: 801,590 sq km
Population: 20,905,585 (est July 2007)
Languages: Emakhuwa, Xichangana, Portuguese, Elomwe, Cisena, Echuwabo, other Mozambican languages Religions: Roman Catholicism, Islam, Zionist Christianity
Life expectancy: 40.9 (est 2007)
Population below poverty line: 70% (est 2001)

 

Mozambique

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BMS World Mission is supporting a pre-school programme as part of the Baptist Convention of Mozambique outreach. This project links with BMS work in São Paulo and the World Mission Board of the Brazilian Baptist Convention. Lynne Brown, a BMS worker in Angola and previously a volunteer, visited Mozambique in 2002.