Mongolian Adventist reestablish presence after 60 year absence
Friday, 07 March 2008
The Mongolian Seventh-Day Adventist
Church has recently celebrated increases in its church members and in
parish priests since the church was reestablished in 1993.
In late February the church
ordained two new ministers, both having been born in South Korea. Park
NoYoung and Park SangBum were ordained at the Adventist’s Ulaanbaatar
Central Church.
Officiating at the ceremony
were Paul Kotanko, director of the church in Mongolia, and Nyamdavaa
Dovchinsuren, one of two ordained Mongolian Adventist pastors. There
are now six Adventist priests serving in Mongolia.
Though there was not a single
Adventist in Mongolia prior to 1993, today there are 1,200 church members.
In 1997 the first Adventist church was opened in Mongolia with 26 members.
Church officials note that
there were Adventists from Russia working in Mongolia during the 1920’s
and 1930’s. However, the Adventist work ended with the advent of the
Japanese invasions of mainland China.
Only with the end of communist
rule were Adventists able to renew their work in Mongolia.
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Akira
KAMIMURA, lecturer, faculty of Mongolian studies, Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies launched an innovative website on old Mongolian
manuscripts maps in cooperation with the state archive of Mongolia. It contains 16 precious maps which are stored at the state archive for
academic use. The oldest map was estimated being made in 1803-1805.
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The Mongolian Seventh-Day Adventist
Church has recently celebrated increases in its church members and in
parish priests since the church was reestablished in 1993. 
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