His position and the missionary activity of the church of Bremen allowed him to gather information on the history and the geography of Northern Germany.

The Doke family had been engaged in missionary activity for the Baptist Church for some generations.

He decided to devote his life to missionary activity.

Columbanus ( 540 – 23 November 615 ;, meaning " the white dove ") was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries on the European continent from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil ( in present-day France ) and Bobbio ( Italy ), and stands as an exemplar of Irish missionary activity in early medieval Europe.

Some Jewish organizations have described evangelism and missionary activity directed specifically at Jews as antisemitic.

The opening of Korea to foreign Christian missionary activity in the late 19th century saw some improvement in the status of the baekjeong ; However, everyone was not equal under the Christian congregation, and protests erupted when missionaries attempted to integrate them into worship services, with non-baekjeong finding such an attempt insensitive to traditional notions of hierarchical advantage.

In 1542, he left for his first missionary activity among the Paravars, katesar / kadaiyar Pattamkattiyars ( head of fishery coast ) and mukkuvars, pearl fishers along the east coast of southern India, North of Cape Comorin ( or Sup Santaz ).

Dissatisfied with the results of his activity, he set his sights eastward in 1545 and planned a missionary journey to Makassar on the island of Celebes ( today's Indonesia ).

In his lifetime, as part of his missionary activity, Francis Xavier used to refer to pagans as devil-worshipers and spiritually blind, Hindu teachings as repulsive and grotesque, Vishnu's transformation as foulest shapes, Shiva as shameless, Kali as clamoring for sacrifices, many-headed and many-armed gods and goddesses in temples as hideous forms and temples and altars as place of degrading rites.

Through vigorous missionary activity Methodism spread throughout the British Empire and, mostly through Whitefield's preaching during what historians call the First Great Awakening, colonial America.

However, the Methodist Federation did call for a boycott of Japan, which had invaded China and was disrupting missionary activity there.

Because of this, and because of extra-biblical traditions about her subsequent missionary activity in spreading the Gospel, she is known by the title, " Equal of the Apostles ".

The population is largely Christian as a result of missionary activity in the 19th century.

Historically, throughout the Christian world and in the context of Christian missionary activity, the New Testament ( or portions thereof ) has been that part of the Christian Bible first translated into the vernacular.

Through his missionary activity and writings he eventually transformed religious belief and philosophy around the Mediterranean Basin.

Schemata on the life and ministry of priests and the missionary activity of the Church were rejected and sent back to commissions for complete rewriting.

The lengthened and revised pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world, Gaudium et Spes, was followed by decrees on missionary activity, Ad Gentes and the ministry and life of priests, Presbyterorum Ordinis.

Esoteric values in Buddhism have made it at odds with the values of Christian missionary activity, for example in contemporary Mongolia.

The records show that Chinese Buddhists were actively involved in missionary activity in Tibet, they did not have the same level of imperial support as Indian Buddhists, with tantric lineages from Bihar and Bengal.

" Unification Church activity in South America began in the 1970s with missionary work.

The archbishoprics of Hamburg and Bremen had been created with the intent that they would act as bases for missionary activity in northern and eastern Europe.

Redemptoris Missio, subtitled On the permanent validity of the Church's missionary mandate, is a papal encyclical by Pope John Paul II published on December 7, 1990 devoted to the subject of " the urgency of missionary activity " and in which he wished " to invite the Church to renew her missionary commitment

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

Returning from this first missionary journey to Antioch, they were again sent up to Jerusalem to consult with the church there regarding the relation of Gentiles to the church ( Acts 15: 2 ; Galatians 2: 1 ).

While music and the approach to missionary work were the most visible issues, there were also some deeper ones.

The monastery was at Prouille and would later become Dominic's headquarters for his missionary effort there.

The first shot shows the gate to the mission station from the outside being attacked and broken open by Chinese Boxer rebels, then there is a cut to the garden of the mission station where the missionary and his family are seated.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

St Boniface, whom Gregory sent to Germany to begin missionary work there

The legend that St James found his way to the Iberian Peninsula, and had preached there is one of a number of early traditions concerning the missionary activities and final resting places of the apostles of Jesus.

The second mission ( 860 ), requested by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III and the Patriarch of Constantinople Photius ( a professor of Cyril's at the University and his guiding light in earlier years ), was a missionary expedition to the Khazar Khaganate in order to prevent the expansion of Judaism there.

Although modern parallels between the teachings of Jesus such as the Sermon on the Mount and some Buddhist teachings have been drawn, these comparisons emerged after missionary contacts in the 19th century, and there is no historically reliable evidence of contacts between Buddhism and Jesus during his life.

They quickly established a fort there, and with time a community sprang up and achieved importance as port of call, missionary base and a trading centre.

In a homily preached at Chur and preserved in an 8th-or 9th-century manuscript, St. Timothy is represented as an apostle of Gaul, whence he came to Britain and baptized there a king named Lucius, who became a missionary, went to Gaul, and finally settled at Chur, where he preached the gospel with great success.

Following Portuguese missionary work, there have been large Christian communities in eastern Indonesia through to contemporary times, which has contributed to a sense of shared interest with Europeans, particularly among the Ambonese.

The Catholic missionary, Francis Xavier had worked in Maluku in 1546 – 1547 among the peoples of Ambon, Ternate and Morotai ( or Moro ), and laid the foundations for the Christian religion there.

A. W. Murray, the earliest European missionary in Tuvalu, reported that in 1863 about 180 people were taken from Funafuti and about 200 were taken from Nukulaelae as there were fewer than 100 of the 300 recorded in 1861 as living on Nukulaelae.

Named for a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuit Order ), the Mission is also known as the " place where the water appears ," as there were once natural springs in the area.

The Book of Acts in the Christian Bible records that the Apostle Paul, on his second missionary journey outside of Palestine, sailed from Troas to Samothrace and spent one night there on his way to Macedonia.

* Mary F. Scranton ( 1832-1909 ), Methodist Episcopal Church missionary, the first female missionary in Korea, and the founder of the Ewha Girls School there

By 1859 there were more than 60 missionary alumnae ; by 1887 the school's alumnae comprised one-fifth of all female American missionaries for the ABCFM ; and by the end of the century, 248 of its alumnae had entered the mission field.

But the apostolic or missionary calling is not necessarily the same ( and it is a misnomer and misinterpretation to equate them ), as there are many who serve in missionary, church planting, and ministry development roles who have an apostolic calling or serve in an apostolic role but whose primary duty is not evangelism.

The name derives from the White Fathers of Africa, a Catholic missionary group, that bought the Stony Wold Sanitarium and opened a Seminary to train priests there in the late 1950s or early 1960s.