Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga, () is one of the smaller religious groups in the South Pacific island state of Tonga with a reported 3,853 members as of June 30, 2020,Adventist Directory Retrieved June 4, 2021 started by Seventh-day Adventist missionaries from the United States who visited in 1891 and settled in 1895. They set up schools but made very little progress in conversion, handicapped by dietary rules that prohibited popular local foods such as pork and shellfish, and that also banned tobacco, alcohol and kava. Read more on Wikipedia
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