Baptist World Alliance
| Baptist World Alliance | |
|---|---|
| Type | Communion |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Baptist |
| General Secretary and CEO | Elijah M. Brown, since 2018 |
| Chair | Karl Johnson, since 2025 |
| Region | 138 countries |
| Headquarters | Falls Church, Virginia, U.S. |
| Origin | July 1905 London, United Kingdom |
| Congregations | 178,000 |
| Members | 53,871,526 |
| Missionary organization | Global Baptist Mission Network |
| Aid organization | BWAid |
| Official website | baptistworld |
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The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is an international communion of Baptists, with an estimated 53 million people from 283 member bodies in 138 countries and territories as of 2025. A voluntary association of Baptist churches, the BWA accounts for about half the Baptists in the world, becoming Christianity's seventh-largest communion (see list of Christian denominations by membership).
The BWA was founded in 1905 in London during an international congress of Baptist churches. Its headquarters are in Falls Church, Virginia, United States. It is led by general secretary and CEO Elijah M. Brown, Karl Johnson of the Jamaica Baptist Union, Chair of the Alliance and Lynn Green of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Vice Chair.