Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought to establish a school to train Native Americans as missionaries.

After successive appeals to the Pope asking for missionaries for the East Indies under the Padroado agreement, John III was enthusiastically advised by Diogo de Gouveia, rector of the Collège Sainte-Barbe, to draw the newly graduated youngsters that would establish the Society of Jesus.

Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615, and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes.

* 1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.

In 1926, the Colonial administration provided subsidies to schools run by missionaries, and at the same time established its authority to exercise supervision and to establish guidelines.

Reaching Nairobi at the close of the 19th century, he led a group of other Muslims, and enthusiastic missionaries from the coast to establish a ‘ Swahili village ’ in the present day Pumwani.

Various European efforts to establish trading posts in Vietnam failed, but missionaries were allowed to operate for some time until the mandarins began concluding that Christianity ( which had succeeded in converting up to a tenth of the population by 1700 ) was a threat to the Confucian social order since it condemned ancestor worship as idolatry.

* 250-Denis ( or Denys or Dionysius ) is sent from Rome along with six other missionaries to establish the church in Paris

* 1596-Jesuit missionaries travel across the island of Samar in the Philippines to establish mission centers on the eastern side

They brought missionaries to carry out evangelistic work in order to establish churches in communion with Rome under the Portuguese patronage.

To assist the missionaries, the new governor of Spanish Texas, Martín de Alarcón, wished to establish a way station between the settlements along the Rio Grande and the new missions in East Texas.

It was under Radama's rule that LMS missionaries ( with notable contributions from Scottsman James Cameron ) set up craft industries in wood, metal, leather, and cotton, transcribed the Malagasy language using the Latin script, introduced the first printing press, translated and printed Bibles in the Malagasy language and oversaw Radama's plan to establish dozens of schools offering compulsory literacy courses and basic education for the nobles of Imerina.

* Entebbe is also home to the historical site in Kigungu where the first catholic missionaries Brother Amans and Father Mon Maple Lourdel landed to establish the catholic faith in Uganda.

Others, such as those by the Franciscan missionaries, were intended to establish centers in which the natives could be evangelized.

A supply ship in 1733 brought three missionaries and news that the king had granted 2000 rixdollars a year to establish a new company for the colony under Jacob Severin.

He worked with British missionaries to establish boarding schools, notably King's College Budo, explicitly to keep young noblemen from growing up spoiled.

* Early October-A senior Hindu leader urges the government to establish a national Christian church and expel foreign missionaries.

In 1862 American missionaries in Lebanon and Syria, under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, asked Daniel Bliss to establish a college of higher learning that would include medical training.

In 1814, as leader of the Ngāpuhi, Hongi went to Sydney and encouraged missionaries to establish themselves on his land.

The missionaries and Christian Maori were sickened and moved out of the pā to establish a separate missionary village.

* 1615 – Samuel de Champlain visits Lake Huron, after which French missionaries establish outposts in the region.

The missionaries introduced European crops such as wheat, potatoes and peaches and provided advice and some capital to help local Maori establish 8 local flour mills in the wider area.

He was the first of the Oregon missionaries and helped establish the early foundation of a provisional government in the Oregon Country.

Eleuterus sends two missionaries, Fuganus and Duvianus, who baptize the king and establish a successful Christian order throughout Britain.

While it had a significant presence in the Central Asia, it did not gain any significance in China and East Asia until modern missionaries from Europe and North America arrived in the 19th century.

He approved the launching of a naval expedition under Charles Rigault de Genouilly in 1858 to punish the Vietnamese for their mistreatment of French Catholic missionaries and force the court to accept a French presence in the country.

The high cross later spread to the rest of the British Isles, including the Celtic areas of Wales, Devon, Brittany and Cornwall, where ogham inscriptions also indicate an Irish presence, and some examples can be found on Continental Europe, particularly where the style was taken by Insular missionaries.

This convention was also known as frankohiotika / φραγκοχιώτικα, " Catholic Chiot ", alluding to the significant presence of Catholic missionaries based on the island of Chios.

He approved the launching of a naval expedition in 1858 to punish the Vietnamese for their mistreatment of European Catholic missionaries and force the court to accept a French presence in the country.

The UPCI has a presence in 193 other nations with 34, 133 licensed ministers, 19, 686 churches and meeting places, 748 missionaries, and a foreign membership of about 2. 2 million.

An organised Christian presence in India dates to the arrival of East Syrian settlers and missionaries from Persia, members of the Church of the East or Nestorian Church, in around the 3rd century.

The earliest certain European presence in what is now Burlington was in the fall of 1799, when a group of French explorers and missionaries, led by Francis Morgan de Vereceones, made a portage from the Root River to the Fox River, reaching the Fox at about Burlington's present location.

" For example, in 2008, Patriarch Alexi of All Russia complained about the presence of Catholic clerics and missionaries in Russia, noting, " If they consider Orthodoxy to have just as much the grace of God and salvation as Catholicism, then what is the point of persistent attempts to convert people to the other faith?

With the discovery of the mines of Chihuahua in 1631 there was more Spanish presence in the Tarahuama lands, and the Jesuits sent more missionaries.

The century-long presence of Catholic traders and missionaries in Japan ended in the 1630s when Iemitsu ordered the expulsion of nearly every European from the country.

The formation of new Buddhist sects, such as Won Buddhism, combined with the presence of Christian missionaries during this period, led to further turbulence in traditional Korean Buddhism.

The GoSS does not restrict the presence of foreign missionaries, and does not require them to register.

In some cases, the Indians were very suspicious of the missionaries, and this suspicion only increased when many of the Indians contracted disease, which they blamed on the presence of the missionaries.

Secular scholars gradually came to outnumber missionaries, and in the 20th century sinology slowly gained a substantial presence in Western universities.

He approved the launching of the Cochinchina Campaign in 1858 to punish the Vietnamese for their mistreatment of French Catholic missionaries and force the court to accept a French presence in the country.

Dharmapala must be understood in the context of British colonization of Sri Lanka and the presence of Christian missionaries there.

Others have stressed that by 1857, some Indian soldiers, reading the presence of missionaries as a sign of official intent, were convinced that the Company was masterminding mass conversions of Hindus and Muslims to Christianity.

With the information gathered, the LCMS came to the conclusion that they should send missionaries to northern Japan where the Lutheran presence was scarce in order to avoid redundancies among the various Lutheran churches and missions operating in Japan and a resolution was adopted accordingly.

The municipality has had European presence since 1585 when Jesuit missionaries built a small chapel and dug a well.

The French missionaries, Récollets, visited Great Falls in 1691 and Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac mentioned the presence of a fort in 1693.

Ruatara and Hongi Hika themselves welcomed the missionaries ' presence, but did not convert.

By the 1830s there was a blending of Native and Christian ceremonies among the Ktunaxa, which occurred without the presence of European missionaries or pressure, but rather through their contact with Christian Natives from other parts of Canada and the United States.