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Graham Staines was born in the Sunshine Coast suburb of Palmwoods in the Australian state of Queensland.He visited India for the first time in 1965 by joining the Evangelical Missionary Society of Mayurbhanj (EMSM), and work in the remote tribal area of Odisha state, which had a long history of active Christian missionary style work.
John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a tribe in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity.
In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England at Madras. Tinu Yohannan, Former Indian cricketer from Kerala. Roger Binny, Indian cricketer, part of Indian squad that won the 1983 Cricket World ...
Hopestill Pillow – Zenana Missionary to India; William Arthur Stanton – American Baptist Missionary in South Indian town of Kurnool of Andhra Pradesh. William Ward [4] Charlotte White – first unmarried American woman missionary; H. U. Weitbrecht – Church Missionary Society missionary, author of "The Revision of the Urdu New Testament ...
Hermann Gundert – German linguist and Basel missionary to India; Robert A. Jaffray – Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary to China; James Legge – Sinologist and missionary to China; Eugen Liebendörfer – German medical missionary to India; William Miller – Second Advent Movement
Thomas Baker, 1867, English missionary killed and eaten, Fiji; Martyrs of the Paris Commune, 1871; Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–1887; Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas, 1897; Amandina of Schakkebroek, 1900; Maria Goretti, 1902, died defending herself from being raped; Karolina Kózka, 1914; Armenian Martyrs, 1915-1923 [80] Grand Duchess Elizabeth ...
Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said on Friday. The missionaries were taking shelter in a house ...
Gladys Staines (born c. 1951) is the widow of Australian missionary Graham Staines.Graham Staines was burnt alive along with their two sons Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 7) by a mob led by the Bajrang Dal activist Dara Singh in Odisha, India on 22 January 1999.