- Introduction
Maraland is a region in the South-Eastern part of Mizoram state,
signifying the Mara people inhabited area. The region is one of
the three Autonomous District Councils within Mizoram state
of India.
The Mara Autonomous District Council government
is headed by Chief Executive Member, currently by Puhpa N.Zakhai, a veteran
Congress politician. Maraland is not to be coined with political name nor
district or any other territorial name, but rather it signifies the area
occupied by Mara people as their homeland.
All ethnic Maras are Christian,
mostly Evangelical. With the arrival of Rev. & Mrs. Reginald Arthur Lorrain in
1907 who had had earlier founded Lakher Pioneer Mission in Penge, south London
in 1905, within a decade Maras had all accepted Christianity. Because the
missionaries were of Congregational origin, they didn't affiliate the
newly founded Church in Maraland with any outside Church. The current
Evangelical Church of Maraland, India and Mara Evangelical Church, Myanmar were
one before India partition.
The major religious denomination in Maraland are Evangelical Church of
Maraland(ECM), Congregational Church of India (Maraland), Lairam Isua Krista
Baprist Kohhran(LIKBK), Salvation Army, Presbyterian Church of India, Baptist
Church of Mizoram, United Penticostal Church, Seventh Day Adventist, Isua
Krista Kohhran etc.
Sources : Wikipedia
MARALAND WEBSITE AND BLOG's
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