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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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
According to government reports the violence resulted in at least 39 Christians killed and 3906 Christian houses completely destroyed. [40] Reports state, more than 395 churches were razed or burnt down, [41] over 5,600 – 6,500 houses plundered or burnt down, over 600 villages ransacked and more than 60,000 – 75,000 people left homeless.
When he and the Portuguese missionaries arrived, they found Christians in the country in Malabar known as St. Thomas Christians who belonged to the then-largest Christian church within India. [128] The Christians were friendly to Portuguese missionaries at first; there was an exchange of gifts between them, and these groups were delighted at ...
The following list refer to list of Roman Catholic missionaries in India. Early missionaries Thomas the Apostle ... Mission (Christian) Christianity in India; References