The Missionaries: God Against the Indians

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Virachand Gandhi (1864–1901) from Mahuva represented Jains at the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893 and won a silver medal. Gandhi was most likely the first Jain and the first Gujarati to travel to the United States, and his statue still stands at the Jain temple in Chicago. In his time he was a world-famous personality. Gandhi represented Jains in Chicago because the Great Jain Saint Param Pujya Acharya Vijayanandsuri, also known as Acharya Atmaram, was invited to represent the Jain religion at the first World Parliament of Religions. As Jain monks do not travel overseas, he recommended the bright young scholar Virchand Gandhi to be the emissary for the religion. Today there are 100,000 Jains in the United States. [72]

John Allen Chau – American Evangelical, killed by the Sentinelese people after he approached the island in hopes of converting them. Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – wife of Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams; Church of Scotland missionary in the Eastern Himalayas Produce and distribute books on the Sikh faith in English and Panjabi, and other languages to enlighten the younger generation of Sikhs as well as non-Sikhs.Sellecl, D. (1980). Quakers in Boston: 1656–1964. Somerville: Fleming & Son. discussed throughout Chapter 1 The missionary legacy, born of men and women driven by faith, power, or fame, divides between cultural enrichment and colonial exploitation. Tenrikyo conducts missionary work in approximately forty countries. [86] Its first missionary was a woman named, Kokan, who worked on the streets of Osaka. [87] In 2003, it operated approximately twenty thousand mission stations worldwide. [88] Criticism [ edit ] Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-12 . Retrieved 2013-12-09. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)

Taisen Deshimaru was a Japanese Zen Buddhist who founded numerous zendos in France. Thich Nhat Hanh, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated, Vietnamese-born Zen Buddhist, founded the Unified Buddhist Church (Eglise Bouddhique Unifiée) in France in 1969. The Plum Village Monastery in the Dordogne in southern France was his residence and the headquarters of his international sangha. Orthodox Judaism outreach ( kiruv) encourages non-practicing Jews to become more knowledgeable and observant of halakha (Jewish law). Outreach is done worldwide, by organizations such as Chabad Lubavitch, Aish HaTorah, Ohr Somayach, and Partners In Torah. Aeneas Francon Williams (Rev) – Church of Scotland minister; missionary in the Eastern Himalayas [2] and China von Le Coq, Albert. (1913). Chotscho: Facsimile-Wiedergaben der Wichtigeren Funde der Ersten Königlich Preussischen Expedition nach Turfan in Ost-Turkistan. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), im Auftrage der Gernalverwaltung der Königlichen Museen aus Mitteln des Baessler-Institutes, Tafel 19. (Accessed 3 September 2016).Bhai Gurdas (1551–1636), Punjabi Sikh writer, historian, missionary, and religious figure; the original scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib and a companion of four of the Sikh Gurus [84] H. T. Norris: "Islam in the Balkans: religion and society between Europe and the Arab world" 1993 pp.21-27 Card, Rachel (12 October 2020). "Missionary work is just another name for colonization". North Texas Daily. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020 . Retrieved 2 November 2021. Teresa took her solemn vows on 14 May 1937 while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta, taking the style of 'Mother' as part of Loreto custom. [13] [31] [32] She served there for nearly twenty years and was appointed its headmistress in 1944. [33] Although Mother Teresa enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta. [34] The Bengal famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city, and the August 1946 Direct Action Day began a period of Muslim-Hindu violence. [35] The Eastern Orthodox Church, under the Orthodox Church of Constantinople undertook vigorous missionary work under the Roman Empire and its successor the Byzantine Empire. This had lasting effects and in some sense is at the origin of the present relations of Constantinople with some sixteen Orthodox national churches including the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (both traditionally said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Andrew), the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Paul). The Byzantines expanded their missionary work in Ukraine after the mass baptism in Kiev in 988. The Serbian Orthodox Church had its origins in the conversion by Byzantine missionaries of the Serb tribes when they arrived in the Balkans in the 7th century. Orthodox missionaries also worked successfully among the Estonians from the 10th to the 12th centuries, founding the Estonian Orthodox Church.

Much contemporary Catholic missionary work has undergone profound change since the Second Vatican Council of 1962–1965, with an increased push for indigenization and inculturation, along with social justice issues as a constitutive part of preaching the Gospel. Abortion-rights groups have also criticised Mother Teresa's stance against abortion and contraception. [136] [137] [138] According to Mark Woods, writing in Christian Today, "to criticise her for opposing abortion and contraception... is to criticise her for not running a secular charity, which she never pretended to do." [139] Spiritual life

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Anjezë left home in 1928 at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the intent of becoming a missionary; English was the language of instruction of the Sisters of Loreto in India. [22] She saw neither her mother nor her sister again. [23] Her family lived in Skopje until 1934, when they moved to Tirana. [24]