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Christian missionary John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese , a tribe in voluntary isolation , after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity .
A few of the martyrs of the C.I.M. in 1900. The "China Martyrs of 1900" is a term used by some Protestant Christians to refer to American and European missionaries and converts who were murdered during the Boxer Rebellion, when Boxers carried out violent attacks targeting Christians and foreigners in northern China.
John Cornelius Stam (January 18, 1907 – December 8, 1934) and Elisabeth Alden "Betty" Stam (née Scott; February 22, 1906 [1] – December 8, 1934) were American Christian missionaries to China, with the China Inland Mission (CIM), during the Chinese Civil War. The missionary couple were executed by Communist Chinese soldiers in 1934. [2]
Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said on Friday. The missionaries were taking shelter in a house ...
Esther John 1929–1960, Found Killed in Chichawatni commemorated at Westminster Abbey. Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta , 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. , Baptist minister, theologian, civil rights leader, 1968
Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the ... they killed rubber ... were weak. Nankiwi, whom the missionaries nicknamed ...
Persecution flared episodically and over a period of 15 years, between 1617 and 1632, 205 missionaries and native Christians are known to have been killed for their faith, 55 of them during the Great Genna Martyrdom, a further 50 during the Great Martyrdom of Edo (but only three were beatified as part of the 205 Martyrs of Japan). [4]
Memorial depicting Oscar Romero and the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador.. On December 2, 1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard (Daniel Canales Ramírez, Carlos Joaquín Contreras Palacios, Francisco Orlando Contreras Recinos, José Roberto Moreno Canjura, and Luis ...