Chosun Daily: Yanghwajin Archives Digitizes Edith’s Handprint, 1910s Missionary Photos. “The Yanghwajin Archives recently created a digital archive of over 7,000 items donated by the family of Rosetta Hall, the Welbon (1866–1928, Korean name Oh Wol-beon) missionary who worked in the Andong region, and the family of Jeon Taek-bu (1915–2008), well-known by his pen name Ori.”

#SouthKorea #history #missionaries

'Rare materials collected by missionaries and Protestant figures from the late 19th century to the 1970s have been digitized and made publicly available online.'

https://www.chosun.com/english/travel-food-en/2026/04/02/GBCPZTNAFNEBTDBFWEZIBTDX3Y/

Morris Officer, founder of the first Lutheran mission in Liberia, looked squarely at the slave trade and could bear it no longer. He prayed that every trace of that cruel traffic would be washed away. His response wasn’t theory, but repentance and hope. What injustices do we dare to pray would be cleansed from our own world—and our own hearts?

#lutheran #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #missionaries

Alexander Duff—missionary and later Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland—describes seeing farm laborers crushed by high interest, producing hunger amid abundance, and being met with what he calls “unimpressible apathy.” Even while writing on evangelism, he refused to ignore economic exploitation. Is naming such suffering a distraction from faith, or part of it? How will you show sympathy that actually moves you to act?

#christian #reformedthology #missionaries #empathy

In the second half of the nineteenth century, several #Asian #missionaries visited #Wales
and spoke to Welsh congregations about the difficult circumstances under which they carry out their work.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/some-cursory-notes-on-asian-missionaries-in-victorian-wales/

#histodons #India #Kurdistan #Palestine #history #Bywgraffiadur

there are 2 million #Christian #missionaries according to this PR, now this is shocking. Seeing that it's the 21st century shouldn't we accept other cultures rather than trying to convert people?

I think there shouldn't be any, the whole concept should be banned and considered a criminal activity.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1112653

#humans #psychology #rant

George Grenfell, a Baptist missionary in the Congo Free State, admitted an awkward truth: many locals avoided missionaries. Fair enough—they associated Christians with the slave trade, so why expect good intentions?

Today, mention injustice alongside Christianity and some defend the injustice itself.
Grenfell saw three camps: the slavers, those calling slavery biblical, and those risking their lives to oppose it while preaching Christ. Still uncomfortably familiar??

#missionaries #christian

These traveling missionaries are fucking relentless

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1617519/these-traveling-missionaries-are-fucking-relentless