The Missionaries: God Against the Indians

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a b Cannon, Mae Elise (2013). Just Spirituality: How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action. InterVarsity Press. p.19. ISBN 978-0-8308-3775-5. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022 . Retrieved 3 September 2016. When asked about her personal history, Mother Teresa said: 'By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.'

Bebbington, David (1997). Rawlyk, George A (ed.). A view from Britain. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. p.46. ISBN 0-7735-1547-X. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) Christian missionary work has been criticized as a form of colonialism. [92] Christian missionary thinkers have recognized complicity between colonialism and missions with roots in 'colonial paternalism'. [93] Hinduism was introduced into Java by travellers from India in ancient times. Several centuries ago, many Hindus left Java for Bali rather than convert to Islam. Hinduism has survived in Bali ever since. [33] Dang Hyang Nirartha was responsible for facilitating a refashioning of Balinese Hinduism. He was an important promoter of the idea of moksha in Indonesia. He founded the Shaivite priesthood that is now ubiquitous in Bali, and is now regarded as the ancestor of all Shaivite pandits. [34]

A 2016 study found that regions in Sub-Saharan Africa that Protestant missionaries brought printing presses to are today "associated with higher newspaper readership, trust, education, and political participation." [98] [99] The first Buddhist missionaries were called "Dharma Bhanaks", and some [ who?] see a missionary charge in the symbolism behind the Buddhist wheel, which is said to travel all over the earth bringing Buddhism with it. The Emperor Ashoka was a significant early Buddhist missioner. In the 3rd century BCE, Dharmaraksita—among others—was sent out by emperor Ashoka to proselytize [8] the Buddhist tradition through the Indian Maurya Empire, but also into the Mediterranean as far as Greece. Gradually, all India and the neighboring island of Ceylon were converted. Then Buddhism spread eastward and southeastward to the present lands of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. [9] By 1997, the 13-member Calcutta congregation had grown to more than 4,000 sisters who managed orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity centers worldwide, caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine. [55] By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity numbered about 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide, operating 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries. [56] International charity

Bireley, Robert (2006-01-01), "The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany", Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany, BRILL, pp.249–268, doi: 10.1163/9789047408857_014, ISBN 978-90-474-0885-7, S2CID 244752108 Singh, Khushwant (2006). The Illustrated History of the Sikhs. India: Oxford University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-19-567747-1. Also, as according to the Purātan Janamsākhī (the birth stories of Nanak).

John Allen Chau – American Evangelical, killed by the Sentinelese people after he approached the island in hopes of converting them. Duff, Mark (25 October 2002). "Islam in Indonesia". Asia-Pacific. BBC News. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: date and year ( link) Mother Teresa is the subject of the 1969 documentary film and 1972 book, Something Beautiful for God, by Malcolm Muggeridge. [185] The film has been credited with drawing the Western world's attention to Mother Teresa.