Timeline of Christian missions

7337:, American Protestants made missions to China a high priority. They supported 500 missionaries in 1890, more than 2000 in 1914, and 8300 in 1920. By 1927 they opened 16 American universities in China, six medical schools, and four theology schools, together with 265 middle schools and a large number of elementary schools. The number of converts was not large, but the educational influence was dramatic. 7096:; Methodist Charles Gabriel writes missionary song "Send the Light"; John Livingston Nevius of China visits Korea to outline his strategy for missions: 1) Each believer should be a productive member of society and active in sharing his faith; 2) The church in Korea should be distinctly Korean and free of foreign control; 3) The leaders of the Korean 4820:, after preaching to Native Americans in December, wrote about the response: "They soon came in, one after another; with tears in their eyes, to know, what they should do to be saved. . . . It was an amazing season of power among them, and seemed as if God had bowed the heavens and come down ... and that God was about to convert the whole world." 6363:, missionary John Geddie wrote in his journal: "In the darkness, degradation, pollution and misery that surrounds me, I will look forward in the vision of faith to the time when some of these poor islanders will unite in the triumphant song of ransomed souls, 'Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.'" 6905:

has turned missionary, lived years in Mongolia, and wrote a book about it." Concerning the author, the critic said, "If ever on earth there lived a man who kept the law of Christ, and could give proof of it, and be absolutely unconscious that he was giving it to them, it is this man whom the Mongols

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of all unbelievers. While reflecting on the Scripture passage, he asked, "When will this be? When will this prophecy be filled . . . we are already in the afternoon, at the end of our days, and the world's final era." Later that same week, while reading aloud from the prophet Isaiah, he reportedly

6087:, England; Gossner Mission formed; Leipzig Mission Society established; Colonial Missionary Society formed; The Providence Missionary Baptist District Association is formed, one of at least six national organizations among African American Baptists whose sole objective was missionary work in Africa. 8779:

2012 – A study by political scientist Robert Woodberry, focusing on Protestant missionaries, found that they have often left a very positive societal impact in the areas where they worked. "In cross-national statistical analysis Protestant missions are significantly and robustly associated with

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arrived at Bethabara Mission in 1835. established Stockbridge Mission, and spent 31 years translating both religious and secular materials, using a Choctaw-English dictionary that he had created. Byington also established Stockbridge Mission on the opposite side of the Mountain Fork River from

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1984 – Founding of The Mission Society for United Methodists, a voluntary missionary sending agency within the United Methodist Church; rebranded in 2006 to The Mission Society; Founding of STEM (Short Term Evangelical Mission teams) ministry by Roger Petersen signals the rising importance of

13893:, p. 215: "The work suffered an inordinate number of tragedies in its early years: five men of the first party of recruits disappeared into the Bolivian jungle in 1943; in 1946 fire destroyed two dormitories at the mission's training camp in California, claiming the life of an infant..." 5981:, a medically trained Presbyterian minister was sent to Mississippi with his wife, Harriet Bunce to minister in the Choctaw nation. After traveling with a group of Choctaws on their forced emigration to Indian Territory in 1832, they decided to establish a new mission near present-day 3327:(Si-ngan-fu), China. Its inscription, written by a Syrian monk almost a thousand years earlier and in both Chinese characters and Persian script, begins with the words, "Let us praise the Lord that the faith has been popular in China"; it told of the arrival of a missionary, 1811:

1389 – Large numbers of Christians march through the streets of Cairo, denouncing Islam and lamenting that they had abandoned the religion of their fathers from fear of persecution. They were beheaded, both men and women, and a fresh persecution of Christians

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arrives in Japan where, as "Visitor of Missions", he formulates a basic strategy for Catholic proselytism in that country. Valignano's adaptationism attempted to avoid cultural frictions by covering the gap between certain Japanese customs and Roman Catholic

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language: "What can a man do who does not understand their language, and who is not understood when he speaks. As yet, I do nothing but stammer; nevertheless, in four months I have baptized 60 persons, among whom there are only four adults, baptized in

3055:. Full-scale persecution destroys the Christian community by the 1620s. Converts who did not reject Christianity were killed. Many Christians went underground, but their communities died out. Christianity left no permanent imprint on Japanese society. 4075:

soon becomes what one writer described as "the most picturesque missionary pioneer of all North America." A bundle of evangelistic zeal, Kino was also an explorer, astronomer, cartographer, mission builder, ranchman, cattle king, and defender of the

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1545 – Testifying to the power that letters back home from missionaries have had, Antonio Araoz writes about Francis Xavier: "No less fruit has been obtained in Spain and Portugal through his letters than has been obtained in the Indies through his

8292:; is presumably shot down over the mining town of Minas Las Coloradas, Zacatecas Mexico while dropping Gospels of St. John from his Cessna 170B, killing him and a young Mexican national who was with him; In separate incidents, rebels in the 8536:, a mission organization focused on African children and youth, with special attention to groups of neglected, abused or marginalized children, founded by John and Lorella Rouster with DR Congo (then Zaire) as its first field of service 8716:

missionary Roni Bowers and her infant daughter are killed when a Peruvian Air Force jet fires on their small float-plane. Though severely wounded in both legs, missionary pilot Kevin Donaldson landed the burning plane on the Amazon

3672: 6377:'s visit to Europe, the Berlin Ladies Association for China is established in conjunction with the Berlin Missionary Association for China. Work in China will commence in 1851 with the arrival of Hermandine Neumann in Hong Kong. 5989:, a friend and first president of Dartmouth College. Meanwhile, ignoring his own frail health, Alfred spent as much time as he could translating religious documents from English into the Choctaw language until his death in 1853. 5264:

1791 – One hundred and twenty Korean Christians are tortured and killed for their faith. It began when Paul Yun Ji-Chung, a noble who had become a Christian, decided not to bury his mother according to traditional Confucian

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after having been converted in Hirta on the Persian border; in starting a school for native Gothic evangelists, John Chrysostom writes, "'Go and make disciples of all nations' was not said for the Apostles onlyu, but for us

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The Encyclopaedia of missions. Descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. With a full assortment of maps, a complete bibliography, and lists of Bible version, missionary societies, mission stations, and a general

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1854 – New York Missionary Conference, guided by Alexander Duff, ponders the question: "To what extent are we authorized by the Word of God to expect the conversion of the world to Christ?"; Henry Venn, secretary of the

6869:(1836-1896), a brilliant Confucian philosopher who after being freed opium, dedicated his life to preaching the Gospel and creating of rehabilitation centers for thousands of opium addicts in the Chinese province of 4986:

1764 – The Moravians make a decision to expand and begin publicizing their missionary activity, particularly in the British colonies; Moravian Jens Haven makes the first of three exploratory missionary journeys to

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1798 – The Missionary Society of Connecticut is organized by the Congregationalists to take the gospel to the "heathen lands" of Vermont and Ohio. Its missionaries evangelized both European settlers and Native

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Udy, James Stuart. A "Attitudes within the Protestant churches of the Occident towards the propagation of Christianity in the Orient: an historical survey to 1914" (PhD. Dissertation. Boston University, 1952)

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A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary Operations Throughout the World : with Geographical Descriptions, and Accounts of the Social, Moral, and Religious Condition of the

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International Conference on The Role and Status of Macao in the Propagation of Catholicism in the East, Macao, 3-5 November 2009, Centre of Sino-Western Cultural Studies, Istituto Politecnico de Macao.

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numerous missionaries in Africa and Asia in British, French, German and Belgian colonies are expelled or detained for the duration of the war, if their nation was at war with the colonial authority.

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1973 – Services by Billy Graham attract four and a half million people in six cities of Korea; first All-Asa Mission Consultation convenes in Seoul, Korea with 25 delegates from 14 countries;

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arrive at Ft. Wrangel, Alaska where they join Philip McKay (né Clah) to start missionary work. McFarland was the first white woman in Alaska, and renowned as "Alaska's Courageous Missionary."

8751:, an Afghan Christian convert, is forced out of Afghanistan by local Muslim leaders and exiled to Italy. Missionary Vijay Kumar is publicly stoned by Hindu extremists for Christian preaching. 6873:

and other cities and towns such as Chao-ch'eng, Teng-ts'uen, Hoh-chau, T'ai-yuan and Ping-yang, along with his wife. In 1906, there were, in all, 45 rehabilitation centers and 300,000 healed.

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numerous missionaries in Africa and Asia in British, French and Belgian colonies are expelled or detained for the duration of the war, if their nation was at war with the colonial authority

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Austin, Alvyn James, "Pilgrims and Strangers: The China Inland Mission in Britain, Canada, the United States and China 1865-1990" (Ph.D. diss., York University, North York, Ontario, 1996).

398:, Christian leader in Pontus. It was said that when Gregory became "bishop" there were only 17 Christians in Pontus while at his death thirty years later there were only 17 non-Christians. 4036:

by a Jesuit missionary. She, along with many other Native Americans, joins a missionary settlement in Canada where a syncretistic blend of ascetic indigenous and Catholic beliefs evolves.

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1797 – Netherlands Missionary Society formed; The Duff, carrying 36 lay and pastoral missionaries, sails to three islands of the South Pacific; The first Christian missionary (from the

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1549 Jesuit missionaries led by Xavier arrive in Japan and built a base in Kyushu. Their activity was most successful in Kyushu, with about 100,000 to 200,000 converts, including many

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1816 – Barnabas Shaw opens the first Wesleyan mission in South Africa: Liliefontein, in the Khamiesberg Mountains (Namaqualand), among the Khoisan peoples in the northern Cape Colony.

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1696 – Jesuit missionary Francois Pinet founds the Mission of the Guardian Angel near what is today Chicago. The mission was abandoned in 1700 when missionary efforts seemed fruitless

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saw a vision of vast multitudes being converted and baptised. He began to pray to be chosen to preach and convert all heathen. He would die 20 years later as a missionary to Mexico.

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1754 – Moravian John Ettwein arrives in America from Germany as a missionary. Preaching to Native Americans and establishing missions, Ettwein will travel as far south as Georgia.

16244: 1501:; Olaf II Haroldsson becomes the first king of the whole of Norway. Over the next 15 years he would organize Norway's final conversion and its integration into Christian Europe. 625:, augustus in the East. It attempted to resolve the Arian controversy, and was attended by about 170 bishops. It was convened by the two augusti at the request of Pope Julius I. 5707:

1822 – African American Betsy Stockton is sent by the American Board of Missions to Hawaii. She thus becomes the first single woman missionary appointed by the American Board.

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higher levels of printing, education, economic development, organizational civil society, protection of private property, and rule of law and with lower levels of corruption".

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1939 – A sick missionary, Joy Ridderhof, makes a recording of gospel songs and a message and sends it into the mountains of Honduras. It is the beginning of Gospel Recordings

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1768 – Five United Brethren missionaries from Germany, invited by the Danish Guinea Company, arrive in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), to teach in the Cape Coast Castle schools

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1951 – Communist government of China expels all Christian missionaries; the void was more than filled by a Chinese Church, 25% of which consisted of independent churches.

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chief Uncas, is ordained by the Presbyterians. Occom became the first American Indian to publish works in English. These included sermons, hymns and a short autobiography.

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Founded in Columbus, IN. Disrupting the Crisis of the lack of access to healthcare to the world's most vulnerable<www.fameworld.org. Frankfurt Declaration on Mission;

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submits his Plan for the Society for the Establishment of Missions Among the Heathen. Methodist missions among the "heathen" will begin in 1786 when Coke, destined for

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1873 – Regions Beyond Missionary Union founded in London in connection with the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions; first Scripture portion (

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1770 – John Marrant, a free black from New York City, begins ministering cross-culturally, preaching to the American Indians. By 1775 he had carried the gospel to the

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and four other missionaries are executed, together with 14 Chinese Christians. Prior to his death, Sanz reportedly converted some of his prison guards to Christianity.

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Indians, examines the customs of the French colonists and the doctrines of the missionaries and openly begins protecting Christians in his part of what is now New York

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where he has been working for four years under the supervision of Jonathan Edwards with an appointment from the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians.

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1738 – Moravian missionary George Schmidt settles in Baviaan Kloof (Valley of the Baboons) in the Riviersonderend valley of South Africa. He begins working with the

and labor for 18 years before seeing their first Thai convert; Irish Presbyterian Missionary Society formed; Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Missionary Society founded.

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begins his television and internet mission to Muslims in North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and western countries, resulting in thousands of conversions.

7687:(YMCA Press), challenging the over-emphasis on conversions. Missions should instead focus on fighting evils such as materialism, racial injustice, war and poverty. 5116:

An Account of the Manner in Which the Protestant Church of the Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren, Preach the Gospel, and Carry On Their Missions Among the Heathen

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859 – Execution of Eulogius, proponent of confrontational Christian witness in Spain and other Muslim-dominated societies. Opposed to any feeling of affinity with

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1943 - CBFMS Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society was formed sending Missionaries to the CONGO, South America and Philippines, now in over 60 countries.

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2000 – Asia College of Ministry (ACOM), a ministry of Asia Evangelistic Fellowship (AEF), was launched by Jonathan James, to train national missionaries in Asia.

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1914-1918 The World War reduced the enthusiasm for missions, and led to growing doubts about the wisdom of cultural imperialism in dealing with foreign peoples.

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1881 – Home & Foreign Mission Fund (now known as Interlink) was established in Glasgow as a missionary service group for brethren missionaries from Scotland

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South China in the sixteenth century: being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P. [and] Fr. Martín de Rada, O.E.S.A. (1550-1575)

8445:; 1600 Chinese assemble in Hong Kong for the Chinese Congress on World Evangelization; Islamic World Congress calls for withdrawal of Christian missionaries; 3113: 8064: 7409: 6220: 4362: 6880:, Pakistan starts in the wake of revivals under Bishop William Taylor; North Africa Mission (now Arab World Ministries) founded on work of Edward Glenny in 8409: 8289: 6020: 5570: 5496: 3841: 3313: 6932:

organizes The Missionary Union for the Evangelization of the World. The first classes of the Missionary Training College are held in New York City. Zaire

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is abandoned due to the hostility of the Cochimi Indians, as well as to the decimation of the local population by epidemics and a water shortage. Chinese

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grants to the crown of Spain all the newly discovered countries in the Americas, on condition that provision be made for the religious instruction of the

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marks the turning away from traditional missions by the mainstream Protestant denominations, leaving the field to the evangelicals and fundamentalists.

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1763 – The Presbyterian Synod of New York orders that a collection for missions be taken. In 1767 the Synod asks that this collection be done annually.

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from France is sent by papal authority to Denmark as a royal chaplain and missionary; Harald Klak is baptized along with 400 of his followers at Mainz

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1408 – Spanish Dominican Vincent Ferrer begins a ministry in Italy in which it is said that thousands of Jews and Muslims were won to faith in Christ

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1989 – The International Christian Fellowship, a small mission organisation operating in Sri Lanka, south India and the Philippines, became part of

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arrives in India, Santhal Parganas, and continues the work among the Santals started by Skrefsrud and Børresen in 1867; North Africa Mission enters

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translates the Bible into Thadou-Kuki Language East African revival movement (Balokole) emerges in Rwanda and moves across several other countries

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and northern Sonora, dies suddenly in northern Mexico. Kino, who has been called "the cowboy missionary", had fought against the exploitation of

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language. It will be a work considered second only to John Eliot's Indian Bible in terms of significant Indian-language translations in colonial

9802: 3544: 16254: 16001: 15263: 14797: 8253:; The Asia Evangelistic Fellowship (AEF), one of the largest Asian indigenous missionary organisations, is launched in Singapore by G. D. James 5854:

1829 - Dwight Presbyterian Mission moves to Indian Territory after most Cherokees are expelled from homes in southeastern U. S. states in 1828.

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Rivers of Water in a Dry Place, Being an Account of the Introduction of Christianity into South Africa, and of Mr. Moffat's Missionary Labours

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preaching in Northern India and Tibet. From 1918-1922, he travels to preach throughout the world, but finishes his career in new missions to

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1334 – Chaghatayid Khan Buzun allows Christians to rebuild churches and permits Franciscans to establish a missionary episcopate in Almaliq,

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1898 – Theresa Huntington leaves her New England home for the Middle East. For seven years she will work as an American Board missionary in

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1951 – Eastern Orthodoxy is re-introduces in Korea by Greeks, and disseminates after almost 51 years since its first introduction in 1900

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1859 – Protestant missionaries arrive in Japan; Revivals in North America and the British Isles generate interest in overseas missions;

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movements; Clah, a Canadian Indian convert, brought Christianity to natives at Ft. Wangel, Alaska. He assumed the name of Philip McKay.

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1720 – Missionary Johann Ernst Gruendler dies in India. He had arrived there in 1709 with the sponsorship of the Danish Mission Society

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Governor General Crommelin convinces three Moravian missionaries to work near the head waters of the Gran Rio. They settle among the

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fears they are as divisive and might present the Europeans with an opportunity to disrupt Japan. They stay but persecution escalates.

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is ordained (possibly the first ordination in the New World). Soon thereafter, Las Casas will renounce all claims to his Indian serfs

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The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777: Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society

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from the west. Though most of them will be killed along the way, a few will manage to arrive two years later on the Atlantic coast.

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congregation as they seek refuge in Bethlehem, follow them as captives to Philadelphia, and remain with them after they settle in

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remains with the Mahicans through exile and captivity despite almost constant threats from white neighbors. Schmick will join his

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Borao, José Eugenio (2009), "Macao as the non-entry point to China: The case of the Spanish Dominican missionaries (1587–1632)",

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1928 – Cuba Bible Institute (West Indies Mission) opens; Jerusalem Conference of International Missionary Council; foundation of

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1796 – Scottish and Glasgow Missionary Societies established; In India, Johann Philipp Fabricius' translation of the Bible into

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ordained in U.S. Although much of Badin's ministry was pastoral work among his own countrymen, he did some outreach among the

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on World Evangelization takes place in Lausanne / Switzerland; Missiologist Ralph Winter presents the concept of "hidden" or

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1875 - The Society of the Divine Word, a Roman Catholic missionary community, is founded by Arnold Jannsen in Steyl, Holland.

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1832 - Rev. Loring S. Williams established mission station Bethabara and organized the first church in the Choctaw Nation in

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1753 – The disappearance of Erhardt and six companions leads to temporary abandonment of Moravian missionary initiatives in

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is published (the New Testament came out two years earlier). This Bible was the first complete Bible to be printed in the

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1563 – Jesuit missionary Luis Frois, who will later write a history of Jesuit activity in Japan, arrives in that country;

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magazine cover; Hans von Staden of the Dorothea Mission proposes to Patrick Johnstone that he write the book now titled

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1940 – Marianna Slocum begins translation work in Mexico; Military police in Japan arrest the executive officers of the

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Guillermo de Santa Maria writes a treatise on the illegitimacy of the war the Spanish government was waging against the

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1529 – Franciscan Peter of Ghent writes from Latin America that he and a colleague had baptized 14,000 people on one day

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Brian Stanley, "The church of the three selves: A perspective from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910."

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will be selected and trained from its members; 4) Church buildings will be built by Koreans with their own resources;

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begins ministering to blacks. He noted that the masters of the slaves were prejudiced against them becoming Christian.

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officially opens with eight students and six teachers. It was supported by four missions: the Northern Baptists, the

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1980 – Philippine Congress on Discipling a Whole Nation; Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism Conference in Pattaya

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1783 – Moses Baker and George Gibbions, both former slaves, leave the U.S. to become missionaries in the West Indies

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of the New World be brought to Christ "by the preaching of the divine word, and with the example of the good life."

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1730 – Lombard, French missionary, founds a Christian village with over 600 Indians at the mouth of Kuru river in

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begins teaching that the world has already been evangelized, citing Acts 2:5, 8:4, Mark 16:20 and Colossians 1:23

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is published, in which he says that the gospel must continue its journey "til it have gone over the whole world."

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John C. Barrett, "World War I and the decline of the first wave of the American Protestant missions movement."

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1989 - Missionary pathologist, Dr. Ron Guderian, develops cure for and helps to elimatinate River Blindless in

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1852 – Zenana (women) and Medical Missionary Fellowship formed in England to send out single women missionaries

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Sermons Containing a View of Christianity and Mahometanism, in their History, their Evidence, and their Effects

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missionaries and Western traders. He urgently requested an all-out prohibition of Catholic missionaries in the

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preacher who made several missionary trips to North America, begins laying the groundwork for what will be the

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leader Jerome Gracian meets with Martin Ignatius de Loyola, a Franciscan missionary from China. The two sign a

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1566 – The first Jesuit to enter what is now the United States, Pedro Martinez, is clubbed to death by fearful

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2005 – Korean Catholic Bible completed, the first translation of the entire Bible into modern Korean language.

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missionaries arrive on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Within a few months several thousand people have been baptized

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missionaries who had three years earlier established the first mission to the Zunis at Hawikuh in what is now

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Robert Richmond Ellis, "The Best Thus Far Discovered": The Japanese in the Letters of St. Francisco Xavier",

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1778 – Theodore Sladich is martyred while doing missionary work to counter Islamic influence in the western

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1691 – Christian Faith Society for the West Indies was organized with a focus on evangelizing African slaves

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Gad C. Isay, "Religious Obligation Transformed Into Intercultural Agency: Ernst Faber's Mission In China."

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Gad C. Isay, "Religious Obligation Transformed Into Intercultural Agency: Ernst Faber'S Mission In China."

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where he dies within four months. His dying appeal was: "Let a thousand fall before Africa be given up";

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will begin its missionary outreach with work among the slaves in the Caribbean and the Inuit in Greenland.

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and a team of missionaries to (what is now) England to reintroduce the Gospel. The missionaries settle in

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1803 – The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society votes to publish a missionary magazine. Now known as

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1761 – The first Moravian missionary in Ohio, Frederick Post, settles on the north side of the Muskingum.

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280 – First rural churches emerge in northern Italy; Christianity is no longer exclusively in urban areas

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is sent by Mrs. F. E. H. Haines, and the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, to

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authors three powerful pamphlets on the need for world missions; he will go to Dutch Guinea (now called

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of the 'Strict Observance' arrive on the island of Trinidad with conquistador Don Juan Ponce of Seville.

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Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

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Broomhall, A. J., Assault on the Nine, Book 6:1875-87 of Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century (1988).

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kill missionaries Paul Carlson, Phyllis Rine and Irene Ferrel as well as brutalizing missionary doctor

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epidemic until he himself falls prey to the disease. Barely surviving, he becomes a peacemaker between

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1785 – Joseph White's sermon titled "On the Duty of Attempting the Propagation of the Gospel among our

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1626 – After entering Japan in disguise, Jesuit missionary Francis Pacheco is captured and executed at

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on the western coast of Mexico where he will become very proficient in some of the indigenous languages

10219: 6410:, has finished training its first group of young missionaries. They are sent to Africa on a ship (the 4518: 4333: 2733: 17125: 16608: 16072: 15962: 15256: 14770: 14120: 9800: 8755: 8481: 8257: 8056: 7867: 7383: 7197: 6890: 6576: 6565: 6561: 6419: 6348: 6329: 6294: 6271: 6250: 6238: 6151: 6113: 6058: 5894: 5763: 5478: 5448: 5437: 5340: 5325: 5308: 4693: 4547: 4381: 4302: 2856:. Built in Japanese architectural style, it was popularly called the "temple of the South Barbarians" 1693: 1670: 1408: 14795: 9880: 8459:

1977 – Evangelical Fellowship of India sponsors the All-India Congress on Mission and Evangelization

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1968 – Wu Yung and others form the Chinese Missions Overseas in order to send out missionaries from

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by West Indies Mission (now World Team); Josephine Makil becomes the first African-American to join

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as chairman and Robert Wilder as traveling secretary. The movement's motto, coined by Wilder, was:

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732 – Muslim advance from Spain and southern France stopped by Charles Martell at Tours and Poitiers

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Enchiridion symbolorum: a compendium of creeds, definitions and declarations of the Catholic Church

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in Gütersloh / Germany, the first scientific missionary periodical; Lord Radstock's first visit to

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on the southern tip of South America because a re-supply ship from England arrives six months late.

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1843 - Twenty-four West Indian Moravians recruited by the Basel Mission and the Danish missionary,

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1842 – Christian Mission to the Jews (CMJ) establishes Christ Church, first Anglican church in the

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1603 – The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan commences publication of a Japanese- Portuguese dictionary

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who make it their capital. An Islamic service of thanksgiving is held in the church of Saint Sophia

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1993 – Trans World Radio starts broadcasting from a 250,000-watt shortwave transmitter in Russia;

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missionaries Jeff and Els Woodke begin work with Tuareg and Wodaabe pastoralists in Abalak, Niger.

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A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook

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who spent twelve years studying in England, returns to Africa. Supported as a missionary by the

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that all is not as it should be in the new western colonies. He reported that on the islands of

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Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East

10592: 8829: 8759: 8748: 8533: 8484:; Ted Fletcher founds Pioneers, a missionary agency with a focus on "unreached people groups"; 8413: 8370: 8272: 8114: 8052: 7995: 7973: 7768: 7636: 7550: 7361: 7232:. The work of Canadian Baptists led to the guarantee of freedom of religion in Bolivia in 1905. 6991:, S. P. Smith, A. T. Podhill-Turner, C. H. Polhill-Turner—go to China as missionaries with the 6960: 6515: 6321: 6289: 6182:

1842 – Gossner Mission Society receives royal sanction; Norwegian Missionary Society formed in

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1936 – With the outbreak of civil war in Spain, missionaries are forced to leave that country.

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on the Kenya Coast; first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) formed by George Williams;

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formed; Johann Janicke founds a school in Berlin to train young people for missionary service.

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near the Senthea Creek in Granman Abini's village where they are received with mixed feelings.

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1536 – Northern Italian Anabaptist missionary Hans Oberecker is burned at the stake in Vienna.

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writes, "From India to Britain, all nations resound with the death and resurrection of Christ"

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Winter, Ralph D., Steven C. Hawthorne, Darrell R. Dorr, D. Bruce Graham, Bruce A. Koch, eds.

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1841 – Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society formed; Welsh Methodists begin working among the

5836: 5422:'s work in India and resolves to become a missionary himself. He will sail for India in 1805. 5392: 5251: 5057: 4856: 4616: 4507: 4118: 3765: 3610: 3487:(the Philippines) organize a missionary expedition to Japan. They are arrested on one of the 3431: 3238: 1342: 869: 182:

51 – Paul begins his second missionary journey, a trip that will take him through modern-day

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An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen

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1752 – Thomas Thompson, first Anglican missionary to Africa, arrives in the Gold Coast (now

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The End of a Crusade: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and the Great War

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conference grounds at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, sign the Princeton Pledge which says:

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initiates the Interior Micronesia Mission in the Mortlock Islands under the leadership of

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decisions on rites, including the stipulations against the veneration of ancestors and of

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converts to Christianity and smooths the way for the acceptance of Christian faith by the

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190 – Pataenus of Alexandria goes to India in response to an appeal for Christian teachers

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Taylor, Mrs. Howard, Pastor Hsi: Confucian Scholar and Christian (1900; rev. 1949, 1989).

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1983 – Missionary Athletes International, a global soccer ministry, founded by Tim Conrad

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by Italian invaders, widespread revival erupts among Protestant (SIM) churches in south;

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is sent in 1820 to establish Mayhew Mission in Choctaw Nation (present-day U.S. State of

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grants Franciscan Francis Quiñones permission and faculties to go as a missionary to the

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1960 – Kenneth Strachan starts Evangelism-in-Depth in Central America; 18,000 people in

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1795 - Roman Catholic missionary Zhou Wenmo celebrates the first mass in Korea at Easter

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1699 – Priests of the Quebec Seminary of Foreign Missions establish a mission among the

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1614 – Anti-Christian edicts issued in Japan with over 40,000 Christians being massacred

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sees its first group of missionaries arrive. Under the ministry of these Franciscan and

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1450 – Franciscan missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to the Cape Verde Islands

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is still binding on the church today because the Apostles did not fulfill it completely

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in which he gives permission to and exhorts the Dominicans and Franciscans to join the

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is commissioned to translate the Gospels (and subsequently the whole Bible) into Latin.

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1929 – Christian & Missionary Alliance enters East Borneo (Indonesia) and Thailand

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1851 – Allen Gardiner and six missionary colleagues die of exposure and starvation at

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destroy churches in China; Berlin Congress on Evangelism; Missionaries expelled from

8199:(India) and was appointed the leader of the Indo-Burma Pioneer Mission; Missionaries 8075: 7779: 7574: 7542: 7341: 7220:(Kharput) in the Ottoman Empire. Her letters home will be published in a book titled 7127: 7089: 7068: 6964: 6821: 6721: 6483: 6333: 6143: 6072: 5944: 5678: 5625: 5610:, agent for British and Foreign Bible Society, begins distributing Bibles throughout 5543:; American Baptist Foreign Mission Society formed; Netherlands Bible Society founded 4930: 4665: 4573: 4456: 4395: 4323: 4284: 4025: 3996: 3868:. Described as "some bones and ribs preparation for such a work", Eliot intended his 3223: 3209: 3189: 3123: 2714: 2575: 2411: 2367: 2292: 2116: 1975: 1899: 1843: 1590: 1579: 1487: 1192: 943: 909: 730: 519: 486: 381: 264: 153: 128: 16823: 13425:"Revival Fire – by Geoff Waugh (a brief overview of revival since the 18th century)" 12408: 7151:

1893- Charles Frederick Reeve started the Poona and Indian Village Mission at Poona.

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to send 100 Christian missionaries (only two responded and one died before reaching

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Two centuries of student Christian movements: Their origin and intercollegiate life

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Barrett, David B., Todd M. Johnson, Christopher R. Guidry, and Peter F. Crossing.

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magazine; Andes Evangelical Mission (formerly Bolivian Indian Mission) merges into

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1896 – Ödön Scholtz founds the first Hungarian Lutheran foreign mission periodical

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1859 – Presbyterian minister Rev. Ashbell Green Simonton arrives in Rio de Janeiro.

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of what is now the U.S. Southwest are encountered by Spanish Franciscan missionary

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1000 – Christianity accepted by common consent in Iceland by parliament (Alþingi).

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1957 – East Asia Christian Conference (EACC) founded at Prapat, Sumatra, Indonesia

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1882 - Alice Mary Robertson, granddaughter of missionary Samuel Worcester, founds

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arrives in Sri Lanka where he revives Catholicism after persecution from the Dutch

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sails from Ireland to Scotland where he founds an evangelistic training center on

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1880 – Woman missionary doctor Fanny Butler goes to India; Missionary periodical

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baptizes two slaves, thus breaking the skin color barrier for Methodist societies

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1624 – Persecution intensifies in Japan with 50 Christians being burned alive in

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1598 – Spanish missionaries push north from Mexico into what is now the state of

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1326 – Chaghatayid Khan Ilchigedai grants permission for a church to be built in

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1870 – Clara Swain, the very first female missionary medical doctor, arrives at

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begins a series of missionary tours among Indian tribes southeast of Mexico City

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Madagascar and the Protestant Impact: The Work of the British Missions, 1818-95

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1985 – Howard Foltz founds Accelerating International Mission Strategies (AIMS)

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1597 – Twenty-six Japanese Christians are crucified for their faith by General

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A History of Christianity in Japan: Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox missions

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agency founded by Seth Barnes; "Ee-Taow" video released by New Tribes Mission.

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1871 – William Sloan went to Faeroe Islands commended from a brethren assembly

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1616 – Nanjing Missionary Case in which the clash between Chinese practice of

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and 39 other Jesuit missionaries are killed by pirates near Palma, one of the

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is killed at Agauno, Switzerland for refusing to sacrifice to pagan divinities

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White, Ann "Counting the Cost of Faith: America's Early Female Missionaries"

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sends Jesuit missionaries to China bearing gifts from the collections of the

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100 – First Christians are reported in Monaco, Algeria; a missionary goes to

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The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues And Trends

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permits the Jesuits to freely preach Christianity, converting whom they wish

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1593 – The Franciscans arrive in Japan and establish St. Anna's hospital in

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1431 – Franciscan missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to the Azores

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writes that Christianity had penetrated all ranks of society in North Africa

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Latourette, Kenneth Scott, A History of Christian Missions in China (1966).

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1736 – Anti-Christian edicts in China; Moravian missionaries at work among

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Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland

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1893 – Eleanor Chestnut goes to China as Presbyterian medical missionary;

6204:; British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews formed. 4567:

A History of the Propagation of Christianity and the Overthrow of Paganism

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An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: Chronicles of the New World

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program, which has been used worldwide to teach 60 million people to read

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1861 – Protestant Stundism arises in the village of Osnova of modern-day

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1814 – First recorded baptism of a mainland Chinese Protestant convert,

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1420 – Franciscan missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to Madeira

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under pressure from the Portuguese authorities and Chief Mandume of the

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dies in Egypt while preparing to take the gospel to the Muslims in China

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Modern history of Christianity § Late modern history (1848–present)

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1847 – Protestant Rhenish Missionary Society begins operations in China.

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1788 – Dutch missionaries begin preaching the Gospel among fishermen in

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take place when Guaticaba along with other members of his household are

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1978 – LCWE Consultation on Gospel and Culture in Willowbank, Bermuda;

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and then first mission secretary of the Norwegian Pentecostal movement.

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1751 – Samuel Cooke arrives in New Jersey as a missionary for the SPGFP

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1554 – 1,500 converts to Christianity are reported in Siam (now called

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1485 – After having come into contact with the Portuguese, the King of

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Jurgis Ellisonas, "Christianity and the daimyo," in John W. Hall, ed.

9021: 8377:(Mouskos) of Cyprus baptizes 10,000 into the Orthodox Church in Kenya. 8002:

adopts program calling for the tripling of the number of missionaries.

7994:

1948 – Alfredo del Rosso merges his Italian Holiness Mission with the

5207:. Marrant's cross-cultural ministry led him to take the Gospel to the 5043:

Indians as well as to groups he called the Catawar and Housaw peoples.

5015:

1767 – Spain expels the Jesuits from Spanish colonies in the New World

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1717 – Chen Mao writes to the Chinese Emperor about his concerns over

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Modern history of Christianity § Age of Enlightenment (1640–1740)

1497:

1015 – Russia is said to have been "comprehensively" converted to the

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History of Methodist Missions, vol. 4: Twentieth-Century Perspectives

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1917 – Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) founded

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1875 – The Foreign Christian Missionary Society organized within the

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writes words to missionary classic "From Greenland's Icy Mountains".

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doctrine ends in the deportation of foreign missionaries. Missionary

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1544 – Franciscan Andrés de Olmos, leads group of Indian converts to

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1518 – Don Henrique, son of the king of the Congo, is consecrated by

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is consecrated a missionary bishop. He evangelized the region around

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founds the Scandinavian Alliance Mission in Chicago, later known as

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1876 – In September, a rusty ocean steamer arrives at a port on the

6727:

1872 – First All-India Missionary Conference with 136 participants;

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1837 – Evangelical Lutheran Church mission board established; First

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1759 – Native American Samson Occom, direct descendant of the great

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established in Rome to train "native clergy" from all over the world

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354 – Theophilus "the Indian" reports visiting Christians in India;

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Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War

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Bible completed, the first translation of the entire Bible into an

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arrives in Seoul. African Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) merges with

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1938 – Madras World Missionary Conference held; Dutch missiologist

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1894 – Soatanana Revival begins among Lutheran and LMS churches in

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1843 – Baptist John Taylor Jones translates New Testament into the

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1790 – Prince Williams, a freed slave from South Carolina, goes to

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1741 – Dutch missionaries start building Christ Church building in

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advocating prayer as the primary means of converting non-Christians

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why Lutherans are not sending out missionaries in obedience to the

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in the Philippines to establish mission centers on the eastern side

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1555 – The first, failed, attempt to set up a Christian mission in

2638: 2627: 2621: 2469: 2329: 2246: 2044: 1884: 1257: 1188: 1142: 1117: 1035: 899: 786: 771: 608: 457: 281: 268: 176: 106: 14213:"TIME Magazine -- U.S. Edition -- December 4, 1964 Vol. 84 No. 24" 13102:"Training mission workers | Missionary training at Redcliffe" 12685:"Christian Cyclopedia | The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod" 12374:

Abi Olowe, 2007, Great Revivals Great Revivalist, Omega Publishers

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1961 – International Missionary Council (IMC) integrated into the

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1890 - Presbyterian missionary, Robert M. Loughridge, founded the

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1860 – British Syrian Schools Association (forerunner to MECO and

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Mission of Inquiry to the Jews; four Scottish ministers including

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is established by Joseph Frey, William Wilberforce, and Lewis Way.

5188:

Subjects in India" is published in the second edition of his book

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to enter into a seven-year "Concert of Prayer" for missionary work

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1646 – After being accused of being a sorcerer, Jesuit missionary

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1567 – Missionaries Jeronimo da Cruz and Sebastiao da Canto, both

2586:(Florida) with two companions. They are immediately killed by the 1894:

begins printing the Bible with his movable-type printing process;

1397:

converts to Christianity and begins the period of Christian Poland

1271:

is evangelizing in (what is now) Germany when he is killed by the

1264:; First missionaries reach the area that is now the Czech Republic 1195:, thus providing a written record of a Christian presence in China 905:

592 – Death of Celtic/Irish missionary Moluag (Old Irish: Mo-Luóc)

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is overthrown and missionaries are able to return to that country

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arrives in America; David Avery is ordained as missionary to the

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1638 – Official ban of Christianity in Japan with death penalty;

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and other Jesuits soon publicize the stele's discovery in Europe.

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1540 – Franciscans arrive in Trinidad and are killed by cannibals

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1982 – Story on "The New Missionary" makes December 27 cover of

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1949 – Russian Orthodox Church stops in all activities in Korea.

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Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry After One Hundred Years

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1924 – Bible Churchman's Missionary Society opens work in Upper

7367:

1903 – First group baptism at Sattelberg Mission Station under

7175:

formed by Peter Cameron Scott; Japan Bible Society established;

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1834 – American Presbyterian Mission opens work in India in the

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comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions;

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constructs a church building in India that is still in use today

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order arrives in Mexico; First Christian missionaries arrive in

2321:

and begin moving inland in the wake of Portuguese military units

1323:

878 – Last definite reference to Christians in China before the

1138:

puts heavy pressure on the Christian Berbers to convert to Islam

1081:

that would serve as a base for missionary outreach into Scotland

706:

of Scotland; three missionaries sent to the mountaineers in the

543:

and Aedesius, are the sole survivors of a ship destroyed in the

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Around the World Tour of Christian Missions: A Universal Survey

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Re Thinking Missions A Laymen S Inquiry After One Hundred Years

11231:"Eighteenth Century Bibles and Biblical History From 1700-1799" 11174:"Lambeth Palace Library: Papers of the Christian Faith Society" 10376: 9898:(in German). Münster-Berlin: Koehler&Amelang. p. 157. 8601: 8467: 8430:

1975 – Missionaries Armand Doll and Hugh Friberg imprisoned in

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1963 – Theological Education by Extension movement launched in

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with the Presbyterian Mission; Central American Mission enters

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1828 – Basel Mission begins work in the Christiansborg area of

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to minister to the Cherokees then living in Arkansas Territory.

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1766 – Philip Quaque, a Fetu youth from the Cape Coast area of

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confers with Koquethagacton ("White Eyes") at the mouth of the

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1669 – Eager to compete with the Jesuits for conversion of the

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chaplains expand their ministry beyond the European expatriates

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monks visiting China find no traces of Christian community left

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Timeline of Christianity § First Seven Ecumenical Councils

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Moreau, A. Scott, David Burnett, Charles Edward van Engen and

14920:(Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) (2008) 7545:; African-American Eliza Davis George sails from New York for 7469:, Philippines; Bolivian Indian Mission founded by George Allen 7327:); Missionary James Chalmers killed and eaten by cannibals in 6862:, establishing the first Protestant Church in Amazonia in 1883 6496:; Basel Evangelical Missionary Society begins work in western 5770:

that he was "advancing rapidly" in his efforts to disseminate

5547:

officiated at the first service on Christmas Day to begin the

5234:

and soon begins to urge that worldwide missions be undertaken.

4852:, zealously building missions and converting Native Americans. 4283:

of the Swedish church in America. The interchange is noted in

3713:

as a missionary where he will champion the cause of exploited

2526:

leaves the Netherlands and begins planting churches in Germany

2317:

1522 – Portuguese missionaries establish presence on coast of

1985:

takes Christian priests with him on his second journey to the

1480:

1008 – Sigfrid (or Sigurd), English missionary, baptizes King

1202:

begins missionary work among the pagans near the mouth of the

358:

200 – First Christians are reported in Switzerland and Belgium

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excerpt and text search and highly detailed table of contents

11150:"Welcome to the Randell Research Center in Pineland, Florida" 10675:; Pereira, Galeote; Cruz, Gaspar da; Rada, Martín de (1953), 8676: 8625: 8613:

1994 – Liibaan Ibraahim Hassan, a convert to Christianity in

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missionaries beheaded in the Philippines by Japanese soldiers

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1902-1927 – With world attention focused on the anti-Western

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house and nearly leads to open war between Britain and China.

6539: 6534:; Sarah Doremus founds the Women's Union Missionary Society; 6051: 5952: 5917:

to serve Cherokees forced to move west on the Trail of Tears.

5898: 5886: 5805: 5801: 5737: 5526: 5429:, the periodical is the oldest religious magazine in the U.S. 5151: 5005: 4878: 4823:

1746 – From Boston a call is issued to the Christians of the

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under the dual auspices of the Royal Mission College and the

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and will be eventually condemned to death by the tribunal of

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1600 – French missionaries arrive in the area of what is now

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reports that locals kill elephants to protect their crops in

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1578 – King of Spain orders the bishop of Lima not to confer

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1525 – Italian Franciscan missionary Giulio Zarco is sent to

2263: 2216: 2182: 2034: 1910: 1791: 1317: 1261: 1160: 1038:, a German people living in northern Italy, become Christians 979: 881: 852: 833: 808: 747: 736: 714: 703: 596: 581: 420: 409: 362: 249: 211: 143: 15000:, 7 volumes, (1938–45), the most detailed scholarly history 14416:"Muchave, João Zacarias, Mozambique, Church of the Nazarene" 9918:

Jan M Piskorski, Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, 1999, p. 36,

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are kidnapped in the Philippines by Muslim terrorist group;

8264:(CWME); International Christian radio stations now number 30 6850:

and Fannie Bishop Capen Nelson begin 45 years of service in

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and pioneer Pacific Islander missionary, is commissioned by

5102:

1777 – Portuguese missionaries build a church at Hashnabad,

5087:

1776 – Cyril Vasilyevich Suchanov builds first church among

4730:

people, who were practically on the threshold of extinction.

4679:

with the purpose of doing missionary work among rural people

4305:, returns to America as a missionary of the newly organized 4270:

Modern history of Christianity § Revivalism (1720–1906)

3872:

for missionaries wishing to learn the dialect spoken by the

2560:

1548 – Xavier founds the College of the Holy Name of God in

12977:. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. p. 92. 12506:"John Geddie – Missionary Biographies – Worldwide Missions" 12234:"Eagletown Choctaw Settlement." McCurtain County, Oklahoma. 11653:"Baldaeus Theological College – Articles – Arumuka Navalar" 9186:

Living Languages in Catholic Worship: An Historical Inquiry

8739: 8390:

1972 – American Society of Missiology founded with journal

8366: 8099:; Argentina Revival breaks out during Tommy Hicks crusade; 8096: 8060: 7754: 7630: 7621:

1919 – The Union Version of Bible in Chinese is published;

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1884 – David Torrance is sent by the Jewish Mission of the

6677: 6446: 6414:) which had been built using money entirely from donations. 6275: 4797:

1744 – Thomas Thompson resigns his position as dean at the

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of Mexico. The mission was to be an educational center for

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where in three years of ministry he baptizes 6,700 converts

2610: 2407: 2227: 2220: 2134: 2052: 1839: 1646: 1553:

1200 – The Bible is now available in 22 different languages

1477:

1003 – The Hungarian king sends evangelists to Transylvania

1375: 1152: 1084:

680 – First translation of Christian scriptures into Arabic

1020: 863: 779: 628:

350 – Bible is translated into Saidic, an Egyptian language

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Mission Handbook 1998-2000, Monrovia, CA:MARC,1997, p. 158

13454:"Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China" 8946:"Apostle Paul's Third Missionary Journey Map (53-58 A.D.)" 8679:

extremists as they are sleeping in a car in eastern India.

8617:, is martyred by Islamic militants in the capital city of 8362:

begins "industrial evangelism" to Taiwan's factory workers

7530:

1912 – Conference of British Missionary Societies formed;

7351:

1902 – California Yearly Meeting of Friends opens work in

7181: