16 Facts About Missionary

Missionary is a member of a religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

Missionary's proselytizing is said to have converted many to Buddhism in China, and made Chang'an, present-day Xi'an, a major center of Buddhism.

Missionary sent tribute missions to Liang in 534 and 541, on the second occasion requesting artisans as well as various Buddhist works and a teacher.

Missionary is credited with having sent a mission in 538 to Japan that brought an image of Shakyamuni and several sutras to the Japanese court.

Missionary has attracted celebrity religious followers such as Richard Gere and Adam Yauch.

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Missionary got to know a slave from the Danish colony in the West Indies.

One of the first large-scale missionary endeavors of the British colonial age was the Baptist Missionary Society, founded in 1792 as the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen.

London Missionary Society was an evangelical organisation, bringing together from its inception both Anglicans and Nonconformists; it was founded in England in 1795 with missions in Africa and the islands of the South Pacific.

The Colonial Missionary Society was created in 1836, and directed its efforts towards promoting Congregationalist forms of Christianity among "British or other European settlers" rather than indigenous peoples.

Missionary was an important promoter of the idea of moksha in Indonesia.

Missionary founded the Shaivite priesthood that is ubiquitous in Bali, and is regarded as the ancestor of all Shaivite pandits.

Missionary movement peaked during the Islamic Golden Age, with the expansion of foreign trade routes, primarily into the Indo-Pacific and as far south as the isle of Zanzibar as well as the Southeastern shores of Africa.

Missionary soon attracted several Kikuyus and Wakambas, who became his disciples.

Missionary founded Jain monasteries even in non-Aryan territory, and almost all ancient Jain temples or monuments of unknown origin are popularly attributed to him.

Missionary made four distinct major journeys, in the four different directions, which are called Udasis, spanning many thousands of kilometres, preaching the message of God.

The aim of the Sikh Missionary Society is the Advancement of the Sikh faith in the U K and abroad, engages in various activities:.