In an effort to conquer and convert the Finns, he allegedly led the First Swedish Crusade against the native Finns and persuaded an English Bishop Henry of Uppsala to remain in Finland to evangelize the natives, later becoming a martyr there.

* 596: Saint Augustine of Canterbury sent by Pope Gregory to evangelize the pagan English.

He was also concerned that the prior cult of Quetzalcoatl would find its way into the new religion by equating this god with the Apostle Thomas, as an earlier attempt to evangelize the Indians before the Spanish conquest.

In addition to its professional staff, the SIG is supported by its more than 16, 500 member companies who participate in the various working groups that produce the standardization documents and oversee the qualification process for new products and help to evangelize the technology.

Next year, H. G. Apenzeller from North Methodist church, who arrived 5 April 1885, started to evangelize with Dr. Scranton and his mother.

* The West Saxon monk Winifrid is sent by Pope Gregory II, who gives him the name Boniface, to evangelize in Germany and reorganize the church there.

Members who commit themselves to evangelize for 840 hours per year ( an average of 70 hours per month ) are called regular pioneers.

Those who commit themselves to evangelize for 50 hours for one month are called auxiliary pioneers, which they may do for consecutive months.

He warmly supported the Catholic missionary archbishop ( apostolic vicar ) of the ( Northern ) Netherlands, Rovenius, in his contests with the Jesuits, who were trying to evangelize that country without regard to the archbishop's wishes.

:" Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him (), the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men " ( Second Vatican Council, Ad Gentes, 1 ).

So, although in ways known only to Himself, God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel to that faith without which it is impossible to please Him ( Hebrews 11. 6 ), the Church nevertheless, still has the obligation and sacred right to evangelize.

To me the least of al the sainctes is given this grace, among the Gentils to evangelize the unsearcheable riches of Christ, and to illuminate al men what is the dispensation of the sacrament hidden from worldes in God, who created al things: that the manifold wisedom of God, may be notified to the Princes and Potestats in the celestials by the Church, according to the prefinition of worldes, which he made in Christ JESUS our Lord.

He contrasts this with American atheists who seek to evangelize and convert people away from religion, actions that he is critical of.

Cross-cultural missionaries are persons who accept church-planting duties to evangelize people outside their culture, as Christ commanded in the Great Commission ( Matthew 28: 18-20 ).

At the request of Ulrich, who clearly saw the danger, and at the desire of the Emperor Otto the Great, Wolfgang, according to the abbey annals, was " sent to the Magyars " as the most suitable man to evangelize them.

He writes approvingly of Aidan and Columba, who came from Ireland as missionaries to the Picts and Northumbrians, but disapproved of the failure of the Welsh to evangelize the invading Anglo-Saxons.

Philip James Elliot ( October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956 ) was an evangelical Christian who was one of five missionaries killed while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Waodani people of Ecuador.

While describing the events, Jesus appeared again to all who were there, giving them a commission to evangelize.

These were the people that were found by the Franciscan Missionaries of Camalig who arrived in 1578 ( circa ) to evangelize these parts which was then considered a barrio or Visita of Camalig.

Nathanael " Nate " Saint ( August 30, 1923 – January 8, 1956 ) was an evangelical Christian missionary pilot to Ecuador who, along with four others, was killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people through efforts known as Operation Auca.

The city also boasts colonial buildings like the Saints Peter and Paul Metropolitan Cathedral built in 1761 to 1766 under the supervision of the Spanish Dominicans who came to evangelize Cagayan Valley.

His perplexities in that regard were solved by the advent of Bishop Mathias Loras, first bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, who arrived in France in 1838 in search of priests for to evangelize his vast diocese.

* Seminary rector wants priests who can dialogue, evangelize ( February 3, 2005 ).

Tzintzuntzan was made the first capital of the new Spanish province of Mechoacan or Michoacán in the 1520s, and Franciscan friars arrived here to evangelize the P ’ urhépecha people.

Puno has several churches dating back from the colonial period ; they were built to service the Spanish population and evangelize the natives.

Teams of missionaries settled in the several Pacific Ocean islands to spread the Gospel, build churches, and evangelize new faithful.

Congregationalists set up missionary societies to evangelize the western territory of the northern tier.

* 1704-French missionary priests arrive to evangelize the Chitimacha living along the Mississippi River in what is now the state of Louisiana

On their website, Jews for Judaism offers many articles discussing missionary tactics towards Jews, approaches by Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and various " proof texts " and other arguments often used by missionaries as they evangelize Jews.

The Communists at Anyuan greatly valued education but they did not mechanically evangelize Communism like a missionary cramming a religious belief into a worker ’ s head.

This society does not do missionary work or evangelize.

Around 747, the first missionary cell was founded by the Irish monks Magnus and Theodore sent from the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland to evangelize the area.

While the Boardmans and Ko Tha Byu were penetrating the jungles to the south, Judson shook off a paralyzing year-long siege of depression that overcame him after the death of his wife and set out alone on long canoe trips up the Salween River into the tiger-infested jungles to evangelize the northern Karen.

He subsequently became the pastor of the LaPorte Church of Christ in LaPorte, Colorado and established Scriptures for America, a world-wide outreach ministry to evangelize by means of shortwave radio broadcasts, the mailing of audiotapes, CDs, and DVDs, his Dragonslayer Newsletter and eventually web-casting via the websites ScripturesforAmerica. org and AnotherUntoldStory. com.

The Society was established to evangelize both believers and non-believers in order to convert America to the Catholic Church.

The second book begins with the death of Gregory the Great in 604, and follows the further progress of Christianity in Kent and the first attempts to evangelize Northumbria.

The main tasks for the SIG are to publish the Bluetooth specifications, protect the Bluetooth trademarks and evangelize Bluetooth wireless technology.

Christian countercult activist writers also emphasize the need for Christians to evangelize to followers of cults.

He convinced the executives to replace their existing mission statement for their New Ventures Group, “ to provide Logitech with profitable growth and related new business areas ,” with “ to scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission-inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings .”

A third place was the missions of the Spanish Jesuits on the Paraná River, situated just above the Guaíra Falls in the north, there priests try to evangelize the Indians into their faith, and at the same time to create a social structure of labor and education based on the catholic systems, that some historians perceive as driven by social conscience, other by an agenda of the usual fight for domination of the land.

The impulse for a script adapted to the language of the local people stemmed from efforts to evangelize the population.

" To evangelize the world for Jesus Christ ; to equip every believer to become true Disciples of Christ ; and to engage those social problems that challenge the communities we have been called to serve.

While recruiting for the college is a main goal, their spiritual objectives are to exalt Jesus Christ above all, edify the saints of the local church, and evangelize the lost.

Yun intended for " Back to Jerusalem " to evangelize fifty-one countries by sending a minimum of 100, 000 missionaries along the Silk Road, an ancient trade route that winds from China to the Mediterranean Sea.

Juan María de Salvatierra and Eusebio Kino asked for permission to evangelize the area, which was received in 1697.

She became well known for her beautiful voice and hence, opportunities to evangelize in the South and West opened up for her.

Johann Ludwig Krapf is the iconic figure in east Africa for his journey and contribution to evangelize the region, so that he is an ever living legend.

Both returned to the Dominican Republic in 1961 to evangelize for four more years before taking up work at Watch Tower headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.

A spokesman for the Way reported the letter to ZENIT, saying that " We share the sense of urgency expressed by Archbishop Chacour to evangelize ' the living stones ' in the land of the Lord.

It was the outcome of the great revival in the region during the 70's and the fundamental factor for establishing such an autonomous body for mission was the zeal for mission, to evangelize the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.