Oddly enough, the church was not the center of missionary activity in the early 20th Century: Rather, the individual mission was, as
directed by the missionary sending agencies.
The Yang Tao had its name changed to «Chinese gooseberry» after being introduced to New Zealand
by missionaries in the early 1900s.
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You are tired, but not from Exploring sin, sacrifices and atonement, common themes
used by missionaries.
The lovely but damaged Sylvie always carried with her the dichotomy of wanting to show the mercy
taught by her missionary parents while craving release through drugs and sex.
Schuyler, Nebraska About Blog St. Benedict Center is a non-profit, ecumenical retreat and conference center, founded
by the Missionary Benedictines of Christ the King Priory.
I was
raised by missionary parents in multicultural environments and I have a special understanding of the challenges of Third Culture Kids and Adult Third Culture Kids who are working through cultural transitions, identity issues, and loss.
The Vatican has a collection of over 80,000 African artefacts brought back to
Europe by missionaries during the colonial era.
The Vatican has a collection of over 80,000 rarely shown African artefacts brought back to Europe
by missionaries during the colonial era.
It was the religion of the Empire and spread to the conquered countries, some of which then spread by conquest e.g. Americas and Caribbean, or
by missionary conquest, e.g. Hawaii
Monica Besra, a mother of five, tells TIME that on September 5, 1998 — a year to the day after Theresa died — she was writhing in pain from an abdominal tumor at a home,
run by the Missionaries of Charity.
These oppressed also saw the doors opening for them as a way out of the misery with the success of the anti-slave campaign
championed by the missionaries.
Taking its title from a hymn
written by missionary Margaret Drummond (played in the film by Pauline Collins: Shirley Valentine), Paradise Road is the product of Beresford's interviews with surviving members of a Sumatran prison camp that was so remote, it took a full two weeks after VJ day for Allied forces to officially liberate them.
Undated handout photo issued by DukeÕs auction house of a Maori canoe bailer previously
owned by missionary John Williams
Undated handout photo issued by DukeÕs auction house of an Ula throwing club previously owned
by missionary John Williams.
He also wandered through Thailand looking for a rink
built by missionaries; he had seen its picture in a roller skating magazine.
The Yang Tao had its name changed to «Chinese gooseberry» after being introduced to New
Zealand by missionaries in the early 1900s.
The first coffee was planted in Kona
by missionary Samuel Ruggles in 1828 or 1829, according to the festival's website.
In addition, George disclosed that she had been abused as a child by older men and
by a missionary on different occasions.
... The failure to indigenize has been largely due to the fact that the new churches have been organized
by the missionaries who most often transplanted their own denominational structures, resulting in the new church's full dependency on the missionaries - almost in everything.
No, you are not directly responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, the thousands (or millions) of women killed during the various witch hunts, the millions
killed by missionaries, the millions killed by Hitler, the suffocation of science, the persecution of free thinkers..., but you did sign on with the same group that IS responsible for all of that.
As Christians, I believe we should always be more
driven by our missionary identity than we are by our national identity, our political identity, our environmental identity, our social identity, or even our church identity.
As I grew, and learned more about christian history, the crusades, the inquisitions, the forced
religion by missionaries and governments etc..
Even though Africa has trained enough people to the same academic levels as in Canada, USA and Australia it can not democratize or develop unless it first cures the residual effects of the partial westernization, cognitive dissonance, and governance - deficiency syndrome
created by missionary Christianity.
In fact, the use of such
images by the missionaries to get across the Christian message obviously reinforced some of the Pulayas» pre-existing notions of God.
A strict examination of the candidate's «knowledge» of these teachings was
conducted by missionaries immediately prior to baptism.
In fact, the new Christian vocabulary
introduced by the missionaries was somewhat alien to them.41 While teaching the Pulaya candidates of Mepra, Koshi Koshi found many responses from the candidates did «not fully correspond» to Anglican Christian instruction.
With these observations about the religion of the Pulayas let us move on to look at the communication of the
Gospel by the missionaries.
It is evident from missionary descriptions that the ability to repeat certain teachings and to give set answers was seen as further proof that the candidates understood Christ's way of salvation as
preached by the missionaries.
However, it is possible to obtain some idea of the process from the nature of the Christian instruction
impaired by the missionaries, the people involved, and the way in which Pulayas responded to particular aspects of Christian teaching.
It must be noted that these were not communities of Persian Christians but of Indians by blood and ancestry brought to Christian
faith by the missionary activities of Indian Christians as well of Persian missionaries.
Nothing better demonstrates the newness of world Christianity than the fact that it has ceased, or is ceasing, to be weighed down
by its missionary past.