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  2. Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó - Wikipedia

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    This failure by Admiral Isidro de Atondo y Antillón and the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino led directly to the success at Loreto 12 years later. After many unsuccessful ventures in Baja California, the government of New Spain and the Spanish crown were reluctant to finance any further attempts.

  3. Mexico during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Mexico lived in ideal circumstances for industrialization. The conditions that allowed the accelerated growth of the economy were the origin of the import substitution model that Mexico maintained for several decades since the end of the war. Economically, Mexico's actions in World War II cost the country approximately three million dollars. [24]

  4. History of the Catholic Church in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    During the late Porfiriato, the Jesuits were allowed to return to Mexico and they were to play an important role in twentieth-century political struggles in Mexico. [96] The Catholic Church recovered economically, with intermediaries holding land and buildings for it. It also pursued charity work inspired by Catholic social doctrine.

  5. Latin America during World War II - Wikipedia

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    In 1940, after he expressed his concern to President Franklin D. Roosevelt over Nazi influence in Latin America, Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and later U.S. Vice President, was appointed to the new position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA).

  6. Jesuit missions in North America - Wikipedia

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    Map of New France (Champlain, 1612). Jesuit missions in North America were attempted in the late 16th century, established early in the 17th century, faltered at the beginning of the 18th, disappeared during the suppression of the Society of Jesus around 1763, and returned around 1830 after the restoration of the Society.

  7. Spanish missions in Baja California - Wikipedia

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    The Jesuit priest Juan María de Salvatierra eventually managed to establish the first permanent Spanish settlement in Baja California, the Misión Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó. Founded on October 19, 1697, the mission become the religious center of the peninsula and administrative capital of Las Californias .

  8. History of the Catholic Church in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Its uniqueness meant that Japan was then the sole overseas country in which all members of those confraternities were locals, as was the case with Christian missions in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, the Philippines, or India, in spite of the presence of a colonial elite. The earliest success Christianity witnessed in Japan occurred in Kyushu.

  9. Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert - Wikipedia

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    During Father Eusebio Kino's stay in the Pimería Alta, he founded over twenty missions in eight mission districts. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On February 3, 1768, King Carlos III ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain and its overseas empire.