New Church to Combine Fundamentalist Christianity With Inuit Cultural Pride

February 28, 2004

Source: Telus

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=canada_home&articleID=1539754

On February 28, 2004 Telus posted an article by The Canadian Press that reported, "For years, Inuit politicians talked about Nunavut as a promised land. Now, Inuit preachers are taking them literally. After years of patient work, fundamentalist religious leaders across the eastern Arctic are about to join hands and their rapidly growing flocks to form a new church that combines speaking-in-tongues, cast-out-the-devil Christianity with Inuit cultural pride...Pentecostal Christianity, brought in by southern evangelists, has been present in the North for at least two decades. But the advent of a new generation of Inuit preachers such as Arreak and Billy Arnaquq has made the difference, says Roger Armbruster of the Maranatha Good News Centre in Nivervillle, Man. 'Since it's come under these indigenous leaders, we've seen it grow exponentially,' said Armbruster, who regularly preaches throughout Nunavut and northern Quebec."