Baptists

== Education ==
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| caption1          = [[Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary]], affiliated with the [[Baptist Convention of Hong Kong]], 2008
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| caption2          = [[Crandall University]] in [[Moncton]], affiliated with the [[Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada]] ([[Canadian Baptist Ministries]])
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| caption3          = College of Nursing, [[Central Philippine University]] in [[Iloilo City]], affiliated with the [[Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches]], 2018.
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Baptist churches established elementary and secondary schools, [[Bible colleges]], colleges and universities as early as the 1680s in England,<ref>William H. Brackney, ''Congregation and Campus: Baptists in Higher Education'', Mercer University Press, US, 2008, p. IX</ref> before continuing in various countries.<ref>Bill J. Leonard, ''Baptists in America'', Columbia University Press, US, 2005, p. 37</ref> In 2006, the [[International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities]] was founded in the United States.<ref> William H. Brackney, ''Congregation and Campus: Baptists in Higher Education'', Mercer University Press, US, 2008, p. 43</ref> In 2023, it had 42 member universities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-18 |title=Uniting Baptist Higher Education|url=https://baptistschools.org/about-us/|access-date=2023-05-09 |website=IABCU |language=en-US}}</ref>