World Evangelical Alliance | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Interdenominational Evangelical |
Leader | Thomas Schirrmacher |
Associations | 9 Regional, 143 National Evangelical Alliances |
Region | Worldwide |
Headquarters | UN offices in New York City, Geneva, Bonn |
Origin | 20 August 1846 London, England, United Kingdom |
Members | 600 million |
Official website | worldea.org |
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is an interdenominational organization of evangelical Christian churches with 600 million adherents that was founded in 1846 in London, England, to unite evangelicals worldwide. WEA is the largest international organization of evangelical churches. It has offices at the United Nations in New York City, Geneva, and Bonn. It brings together nine regional and 143 national evangelical alliances of churches, and over one hundred member organizations. Moreover, a number of international evangelical denominations are members of the WEA. As of March 2021, the Secretary General of the WEA is German theologian Thomas Schirrmacher.