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364 – Conversion of Vandals to Christianity begins during reign of Emperor Valens [29] 370 – Wulfila translates the Bible into Gothic, the first Bible translation done specifically for missionary purposes; 378 – Jerome writes, "From India to Britain, all nations resound with the death and resurrection of Christ" [18]
Thomas J. Arnold Missionary in China during the Qing dynasty; David Bogue – missionary to India, convert from the Church of Scotland; Samuel Dyer – 19th-century China; William Ellis – missionary to the South Pacific and an author; Cynthia Farrar – missionary to India, 1827–1862; Cyrus Hamlin – American missionary in Turkey
The history of the missions of the Society of Jesus or Jesuits in Ming and Qing China stands as one of the notable events in the early history of relations between China and the Western world, as well as a prominent example of relations between two cultures and belief systems in the pre-modern age. The missionary efforts and other work of the ...
Justin Martyr [24] Scillitan Martyrs [25] Perpetua and Felicity [26] Ptolemaeus and Lucius [27] Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, with Blandina and several others, the "Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne" [28] [29] Pope Fabian [30] Sebastian [31] Shmona and Gurya [32] Agnes of Rome [33] Felix and Adauctus [34] Marcellinus and Peter [35] Forty Martyrs of ...
Anton Docher – French missionary in New Mexico, defender of the Native Americans; Louis William Valentine Dubourg – missionary to the US; Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God; Joseph Freinademetz – nineteenth-century canonized missionary to China; René Goupil – French missionary to what is now Canada
Many forget the missionary zeal of Dr. David Livingstone, as he hoped to spread Christianity but also commerce, in Africa. ... 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 in Poland, Maine – October 21, 1883 in Basel, Switzerland), was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, missionary, writer, editor, and scholar. J. N. Andrews was the first SDA missionary sent to countries outside North America. He was the most prominent author and scholar of his time, in the Adventist church.
Buddhist proselytism at the time of king Ashoka (260–218 BCE), according to his Edicts Central Asian Buddhist monk teaching a Chinese monk. Bezeklik, 9th–10th century; although Albert von Le Coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed, red-haired monk was a Tocharian, [5] modern scholarship has identified similar Caucasian figures of the same cave temple (No. 9) as ethnic Sogdians, [6] an Eastern ...