base community
Latin American group
Also known as: communidades de base
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role in liberation theology
- In liberation theology: History
…build this church, they established communidades de base, (“base communities”), which were local Christian groups, composed of 10 to 30 members each, that studied the Bible and attempted to meet their parishioners’ immediate needs for food, water, sewage disposal, and electricity. A great number of base communities, led mostly by…
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