#missionaries — Public Fediverse posts
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Snakes in The Garden of Innocence
=======================After days of hiking, the missionaries came across a tribe living in isolation from civilization. The tribals were surprised to see outsiders, but were very welcoming and hospitable, showing the missionaries around the village, like children, excited to have guests, and eager to show them around their little world. They usually walked around nude, wearing nothing but flowers and smiles. They laughed a lot, the loud laughter of carefree people. In a few days, the missionaries had learned some of their mellifluous language. They told the tribals to receive the Word of God, and become Christians, which greatly confused the tribe. The missionaries pushed on, telling them that they had to be saved, which caused the tribe to guffaw, and roar with laughter. A silver haired matriarch spoke up and said they were fine, and didn't understand what they needed to be saved from. Frustrated, a missionary put a movie on his laptop to keep the tribe busy, while the missionaries held a meeting to discuss how to convert these heathen. While they were in the meeting, the tribe gathered around the laptop, and watched "The Passion of The Christ", transfixed. After watching the movie, the whole tribe made a beeline to be saved, with aghast expressions.
#Christianity #Christ #Jesus #Catholic #Catholicism #Church #Bible #Missionary #Colonialism #Religion #Missionaries
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Ellinwood extols medical missionaries who brought vaccines, drainage, sanitation, and anesthetics to the developing world—heritage of all nations. Was this distraction from the gospel or its fruit? Certain Christians today pursue a rather different conquest, whose benefits appear less universally distributed.
#presbyterian #missions #missionaries #evangelism #development
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I've just published a short blog about an astonishing group of Assyrian missionaries who used to go on extensive lecturing and fundraising tours across Wales between 1882 and 1914. The blog includes an interactive map and newspaper articles published about them over this period. Enjoy!
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/assyrian-missionaries-in-wales-1882-1914/
#Wales #History #histodons #BAMEHistoryIsWelshHistory #Newspapers #Missionaries #HistoryOfReligion #Assyrians
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British missionary displaying, as evidence of human rights abuses, amputation performed by colonial forces in the Belgian-controlled Congo Free State, ~1895
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After days of hiking, the missionaries came across a tribe living in isolation from civilization. The tribals were a surprised to see outsiders, but were very welcoming and hospitable, showing the missionaries around the village, like children, excited to have guests, and eager to show them their little world. They usually walked around nude, wearing nothing but flowers and smiles. They laughed a lot, the loud laughter of carefree people. In a few days, the missionaries had learned some of their mellifluous language. They told the tribals to receive the Word of God, and become Christians, which greatly confused the tribe. The missionaries pushed on, telling them that they had to be saved, which caused the tribe to guffaw, and roar with laughter. A silver haired matriarch spoke up and said they were fine, and didn't understand what they needed to be saved from. Frustrated, a missionary put a movie on his laptop to keep the tribe busy, while the missionaries held a meeting to discuss how to convert these heathen. While they were in the meeting, the tribe gathered around the laptop, and watched "The Passion of The Christ", transfixed. After watching the movie, the whole tribe made a beeline to be saved, with aghast expressions.
#Christ #Jesus #Christianity #Missionary #Missionaries #Bible #Colonialism
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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.
How can you practice the charity of the bible?
#congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries
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I failed the #LDS #mormon #Church. I ran away as a teenager because I was afraid of serving a #mission. I was told that if I didn't serve a mission I wouldn't be able to hold leadership positions and no woman would ever want me. It was too much pressure for #autistic me. Then I had my records removed because the #missionaries kept finding me everywhere I moved and I couldn't handle the shame. I wonder how my life would have been if I had been what #God expected me to be. #christ #christianity
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Chosun Daily: Yanghwajin Archives Digitizes Edith’s Handprint, 1910s Missionary Photos. “The Yanghwajin Archives recently created a digital archive of over 7,000 items donated by the family of Rosetta Hall, the Welbon (1866–1928, Korean name Oh Wol-beon) missionary who worked in the Andong region, and the family of Jeon Taek-bu (1915–2008), well-known by his pen name Ori.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/chosun-daily-yanghwajin-archives-digitizes-ediths-handprint-1910s-missionary-photos/ -
Morris Officer, founder of the first Lutheran mission in Liberia, looked squarely at the slave trade and could bear it no longer. He prayed that every trace of that cruel traffic would be washed away. His response wasn’t theory, but repentance and hope. What injustices do we dare to pray would be cleansed from our own world—and our own hearts?
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The #world needs #missionaries of love, missionaries of reason, not #mercenaries of organized #religion, out to harvest convert vegetation.
Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
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Alexander Duff—missionary and later Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland—describes seeing farm laborers crushed by high interest, producing hunger amid abundance, and being met with what he calls “unimpressible apathy.” Even while writing on evangelism, he refused to ignore economic exploitation. Is naming such suffering a distraction from faith, or part of it? How will you show sympathy that actually moves you to act?
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, several #Asian #missionaries visited #Wales
and spoke to Welsh congregations about the difficult circumstances under which they carry out their work.https://bydbach.hcommons.org/some-cursory-notes-on-asian-missionaries-in-victorian-wales/
#histodons #India #Kurdistan #Palestine #history #Bywgraffiadur
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there are 2 million #Christian #missionaries according to this PR, now this is shocking. Seeing that it's the 21st century shouldn't we accept other cultures rather than trying to convert people?
I think there shouldn't be any, the whole concept should be banned and considered a criminal activity.
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Was the Shimabara Rebellion a peasant uprising or a Christian holy war? This month’s Living Past revisits a brutal reckoning that still echoes through Japanese history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/history/christianity-japanese-history-massacre/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries
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George Grenfell, a Baptist missionary in the Congo Free State, admitted an awkward truth: many locals avoided missionaries. Fair enough—they associated Christians with the slave trade, so why expect good intentions?
Today, mention injustice alongside Christianity and some defend the injustice itself.
Grenfell saw three camps: the slavers, those calling slavery biblical, and those risking their lives to oppose it while preaching Christ. Still uncomfortably familiar?? -
Missionaries brought Christianity to Japan in the mid-1500s. Less than a century later, tens of thousands were slaughtered in a conflict between the shogunate and the devout. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/japan/history/edo-period-christianity-revolt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries
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i hope all #missionaries die i hope all #evangelical #christians die i hope all #tradwife content dies i hope the #mormon #church goes under i hope all mega #churches explode
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This is a tedious hit piece that gets re-run every few years. It always makes the same mistakes.
(1) overlooking the colonization of South Asia and Burma by British troops, Protestant missionaries, and capitalists, which is directly responsible for both Hindu Sangh Parivar violence (like Modi and the RSS/VHP) and Buddhist ethnic nationalism in Sri Lanka and Burma
(2) setting up a "wow, gosh, everyone thinks Buddhism is peaceful" straw man argument - look at the Mongols, Japanese Zen during the early 20th century, modern Korean Buddhism (nationalist and happy with military service), the Khampas who fought a guerilla war against the PLA.... it's only hand-wringing elites drenchef in colonial power who don't actually know the history of Buddhists worldwide.
(3) Treating Buddhist lineages worldwide as all part of a single "religion" -- itself a colonial idea enforced by European Christian missionaries, and now inescapably part of the post-colonial trap.
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"Too often missions are less a relationship that challenges and matures the American church and more a pleasing product to consume, a beautiful reflection upon which to gaze.”
~ Ibid.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #missionaries #evangelicalism #Trump
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“Whatever people around the world learn from missionaries, whatever elements of American Christianity they keep, and whatever the missionaries themselves bring or take away, one thing is clear: the American church has been less affected and less enlightened by those on the receiving end of its missionary endeavor, or even by their own missionaries, then one might hope."
~ Ibid., p. 139
#WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicalism #missionaries #Trump
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The #Violent #Hypocrisy of #American #Christianity
#KayseMelone
#exchristian #exvangelical #christiannationalismChristianity has long been framed as the ultimate path to #morality, #familyvalues, and #goodliving. But #history tells a much darker story. From #missionaries who dismantled indigenous cultures to the role of Christianity in #colonization, #conquest, and modern Christian nationalism, the truth is clear:
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#Missionaries Are Targeting Isolated #Tribes in #Brazil With Solar-Powered #AudioDevices, Investigation Finds
https://gizmodo.com/missionaries-are-targeting-isolated-tribes-in-brazil-with-solar-powered-audio-devices-investigation-finds-2000636320
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/27/missionaries-using-secret-audio-devices-to-evangelise-brazils-isolated-peoples -
#Missionaries accused of #illegally giving #gadgets to isolated #Amazontribe
https://www.popsci.com/technology/missionary-gadget-amazon-tribe-contact/
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Churches populate the breadth of the U.S. national park system, from the barrier islands of South Carolina to the Pacific Islands of Hawaii, from New England to the American Southwest. Some still house active congregations, while others are of historical interest but no longer used for worship.
#religion #worship #spirituality #NationalParks #NationalParkService #spirituality #nationalparks #CivilRights #churches #synagogues #missions #missionaries #colonialism
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"Hello, have you a moment to hear the sacred word of Dagon?" #innsmouth #cursed #cult #missionaries #cthulhu #silentfilm #shadowoverinnsmouth #lovecraftian #lovecraft #dagon #surreal #weirdcore #dream #surrealism
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Blesseds Denis and Redemptus: Missionary Martyrs
The least that any of us who has truly begun to serve the Lord can offer Him is our own life. Since we have given the Lord our will, what do we fear? It is clear that if someone is a true religious or a true person of prayer and aims to enjoy the delights of God, he must not turn his back upon the desire to die for God and suffer martyrdom.
St. Teresa of Avila
The Way of Perfection, ch. 12Courage in Mission, Journey to Sanctity
On November 29, 1638, Blessed Denis of the Nativity and Blessed Redemptus of the Cross gave their lives as martyrs in Aceh, Sumatra. These Discalced Carmelite friars—one a former cartographer and naval commander, the other a soldier turned lay brother—exemplified the missionary spirit of Carmel.
- Blessed Denis of the Nativity (Pierre Berthelot): Born in Honfleur, France, on December 12, 1600, Denis distinguished himself as a cosmographer and pilot-in-chief for the Portuguese king. His cartographic expertise was renowned, and his works contributed significantly to Portuguese navigation and exploration. Despite his prominent naval career, Denis sought a higher calling. He joined the Discalced Carmelites in Goa in 1635 under the guidance of Father Philip of the Most Holy Trinity. Denis professed vows on December 25, 1636, and was ordained a priest on August 24, 1638.
- Blessed Redemptus of the Cross (Thomas Rodriguez da Cunha): Born around 1598 in Portugal, Redemptus served as a soldier before entering the Discalced Carmelites as a lay brother in 1615. Known for his humility and dedication, he became a trusted companion to Denis, offering steadfast support in their shared mission.
Both men transformed their worldly expertise into tools for evangelization, fully committing themselves to their Carmelite vocations.
The Mission in Indonesia
In September 1638, Denis and Redemptus were assigned to accompany Ambassador Francisco de Souza de Castro on a Portuguese diplomatic mission to Aceh. Denis served as a spiritual guide and maritime expert due to his knowledge of navigation and the Malay language. However, the mission’s arrival on October 25, 1638, was shadowed by geopolitical tensions, with the Dutch East India Company (VOC), a rival of the Portuguese in the spice trade, reportedly influenced the Sultan of Aceh to betray the delegation.
Upon their imprisonment, Denis and Redemptus were subjected to relentless torture as their captors tried to force them to renounce their Catholic faith and convert to Islam. Denis became a source of strength for his fellow prisoners, depriving himself of necessities to aid others and encouraging them with words of faith and hope.
Redemptus was executed first, shot with arrows before his throat was slit. Denis, holding a crucifix, was martyred last, receiving a fatal sword blow that split his head.
The martyrdom of Denis and Redemptus was not solely a case of religious persecution. The mission to Aceh occurred at the intersection of faith and politics, with Portugal and the Dutch VOC vying for dominance in the Southeast Asian spice trade. Their deaths highlight the challenges faced by missionaries operating in politically charged environments, even today.
Faithful Witnesses
Denis and Redemptus were beatified by Pope Leo XIII on June 10, 1900, as the first beatified martyrs of the Discalced Carmelite friars. Their feast day on November 29 honors their courage, missionary zeal, and faithful witness to Christ. Their deaths remind us of the sacrifices made to spread the Gospel, even in hostile and complex circumstances.
Want a concise account of the mission and martyrdom of Blesseds Denis and Redemptus? Click below to listen to our podcast on YouTube and be inspired by their incredible story of faith and courage.
Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.
Discalced Carmelite Postulator, Biografia di Dionisio della Natività, accessed 27 November 2024, https://www.postocd.org/index.php/it/biografia-dionisio-della-nativita.
Discalced Carmelite Postulator, Biografia di Redento della Croce, accessed 27 November 2024, https://www.postocd.org/index.php/it/biografia-redento-della-croce.
Wikipedia, ‘Pierre Berthelot (navigateur)’, accessed 27 November 2024, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berthelot_(navigateur).
Featured image: OpenAI DALL·E 2024, ‘Landscape illustration symbolizing Aceh, Sumatra,’ generated 27 November 2024.
#DenisOfTheNativity #Indonesia #martyrs #missionaries #Podcast #RedemptusOfTheCross #StTeresaOfAvila
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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️
With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.
Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,
and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
—all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
—of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
—Trump deflects.Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
but he has further said Putin has been
“far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
Putin presents something of an ur-leader:a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.
The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
has little interest in investigating these ties,
or of slowing these swelling links.While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
with the American president acting as a partner,
witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
—as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.(10/10)
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