The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary

Missionary

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 society formed in England

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 in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans

Anglicanism

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 and Nonconformists

Nonconformism

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, largely Congregationalist

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 in outlook, with missions in the islands of the South Pacific

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 and Africa

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. It now forms part of the Council for World Mission

Council for World Mission

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 (CWM).
Proposals for the Missionary Society began in 1794 after a Baptist

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 minister, John Ryland, received word from William Carey, the pioneer British Baptist missionary who had recently moved to Calcutta, about the need to spread Christianity

Christianity

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.