Ramke W. Momin was the first Christian Garo member and was born in Goalpara district in the 1830s. In Bangladesh, 56.02% of Garos consider themselves practitioners of Christianity, while 40.07% are Hindu and the remaining 3.71% are practitioners of Songsarek.

Before understanding the coming of Christianity into Garo Hills, it is better to understand the history of the Garos. The Garo tradition says that the Garos originally came from Tibet and settled down in Coch Behar, Assam, Bangladesh, and Burma and finally settled down in present Garo Hills of Meghalaya. [1]

Garo church. During this year, 1867, Rev. and Mrs. I. J. Stoddard took charge of the Garo field at Goalpara, and Rev. M. B. Comfort began Garo work at Gauhati. Some years later work among the Garos on the plains of Mymensing was commenced by the English Baptist Mission.

2007年12月1日 · Only around 2.5% of the Garo population adheres to 'other religions and persuasions,' including the traditional animistic religion known as Songsarek, which is still followed in some rural...

This is a brief account of the history of Christianity in the Garo Hills and the impact of Christianity on the clan system, economic life, and elite composition. At the time of writing about 50 percent of the Garos were Christian.

2025年1月17日 · In the hills of northeast India live the Garo tribe, who number more than one million people. For centuries they were feared as a primitive head-hunting tribe, but in the most recent Indian census, over 95 percent of the Garo declared themselves to be Christians. Here is one reason why...

The central question is how Christianity has influenced their self-perception, sense of identity and group formation. How have missionaries, the Christian religion, and Christian institutions and organizations affected the (ethnic) identity of the Garos of Bangladesh?

2012年12月21日 · Christianity has been a big part of Garo cultural preservation, says Tapan Marak, a leader of this indigenous minority. In 1910, the first Catholic conversion in the Garo community took place and today 99 percent of Bangladesh’s 120,000 Garo people are Christian, 80 percent of them Catholic.

In recent decades, most Garo have become Christians, rendering the Garo one of the (almost) completely Christian communities of the northeastern regions, comparable to the Naga and the Mizo (Joshi, 2012; Pachuau, 2014). Garo Christians tend to perceive Christianity as a modern ontology that is in principle superior to the community religion.

Conversion to Christianity in the Garo Hills region of Meghalaya in north-eastern India began in the second half of the nineteenth century and intensified throughout the twentieth century, via administrative institutions and the educational system.