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The Wikipedia article on the Baptist World Alliance, reporting that per an Alliance census released in 2025, the BWA counts 283 participating Baptist fellowships in 138 countries and territories, 178,000 churches and 53,000,000 baptized members, and that BWA affiliated bodies account for about half the Baptists in the world, worldwide Christianity's seventh largest communion; also noting the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest single Baptist body in the United States, withdrew from the BWA in 2004.
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Tertiary reference compiling the Baptist World Alliance's own 2025 membership census and the Alliance's own characterization of its share of world Baptists, rather than either figure at its primary source; the same one-remove standing already given to other Wikipedia denominational body compilations on this axis. Citation
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_World_Alliance
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Baptist directly: "The Wikipedia article on the Baptist World Alliance, reporting that per an Alliance census released in 2025, the BWA counts 283 participating Baptist fellowships in 138 countries and territories..."
This source names Southern Baptist Convention directly: "largest communion; also noting the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest single Baptist body in the United States, withdrew from the BWA in 2004."
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- Denominations, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
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