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the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
the South Seas Evangelical Church , the third-largest religious affiliation in the Solomon Islands , traces its history to a mission for Kanakas in Queensland , Australia ?
Ruatara , chief of the Ngā Puhi , hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814?
Anthony Baldinucci , a Jesuit priest , often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions ?
Anne-Marie Javouhey , the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish missions in Africa ?
bishop David of Basra was one of the first Christian missionaries to India , circa 300 CE ?
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Question 1 : One of the first Christian ________ was St. Paul .
Question 2 : The definition is
claimed to summarize the acts of ________ ' ministry, which is taken as a model
motivation for all ministries.
Question 3 : ________ followed disciplines and
supported missions, libraries and practical research, all of which
were perceived as works to reduce human misery and suffering, thus
enhancing the reputation of God.
Question 4 : He became a missionary to the Housatonic
Native Americans and a staunch advocate for them against ________ .
Question 6 : Particularly in
rural Australia, missions have become localities or ghettoes on the edges of towns
which are home to many ________ .
Question 7 : Then they preached to them in those languages (Quechua , Guarani , ________ ) instead of Spanish, to
keep Indians away from "sinful" whites.
Question 8 : With the Papal
bull ________ the patronage for the
propagation of the Christian faith in Asia was given to the
Portuguese, who were rewarded with the right of conquest.
Question 9 : One of
the quietest, yet most far-reaching services provided by
missionaries started with the Each one, teach one ________ program begun by Dr.
Question 10 : This is the famous
"three-self" formula formuladte by Henry Venn of
the London ________ in the 19th century.
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