Social barrier in da’wah mission to older population by Ismail, Zainab, Wan Ahmad, Wan Ibrahim, Ab. Rahman, Asyraf

“…This is certainly posing particular challenges to the missionaries in their efforts to invite people to the oneness of Allah.This paper discusses the aging of population and its problems in the context of da’wah mission to older population.To explore social barriers in da’wah mission to older population, this study interviewed five key informants aged between 41 years to 60 years.It was revealed there are five major problems will be faced by missionaries in their da’wah mission.These problems include health problems, overwhelmingly elderly women in the community, decline in mosque attendance, poverty and negative attitude of the elderly.With health problem the older people may not be so interested to think about religious practices.As the number of older women is more than the older men, preaching may not receive attention in the future because preaching activity mostly done in the mosques and women are not so encouraged to go to mosque.Because of too old they become less interested in visiting places of worship and preaching activities.Poverty and negative attitude are also become social barriers.…”
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Knowledge Translation Strategies to Strengthen Community Resilience in Response to Climate Change by Rhoda Reddix

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Discussing ethnohistory: The Blin between periphery and international politics in the 19th century by Wolbert G.C. Smidt

“…In the 1850’s, international brokers of religion – Catholic missionaries – and of academic exploration – Orientalists – appeared in the region, immediately followed by agents of imperialism – the British and French vice consuls of the port of Massawa. …”
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Beads of agency: Bemba women’s imbusa and indigenous marital communication by Mutale M. Kaunda

“…Missionaries claimed that they wanted to prepare a manual for new arriving priests so that they would include Christianity to the teachings in order to teach the Bemba women Christian ways of marriage. …”
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To Walk with Slaves: Jesuit Contexts and the Atlantic World in the Cartagena Mission to Enslaved Africans, 1605–1654 by José L. Santana

“…By the time Alonso de Sandoval, S.J. and Pedro Claver, S.J. began their work to baptize and catechize the thousands of slaves who passed through Cartagena’s port each year, the Society of Jesus had already established a global missionary enterprise, including an extensive network of communication amongst its missionaries and colleges. …”
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The development of typography in the bilingual dictionaries of Japanese and the Western languages from 1595 up to the end of the 19th century by Mugikura, S

“…It was introduced in the late nineteenth century, led by the groundbreaking Japanese-English dictionary by the American missionary James Curtis Hepburn, which was published in 1867. …”

Nostalgisk elegi eller idylliserende reminiscens af tanken om den ædle vilde. Review-artikel af Michael Rothstein, Regnskovens religion by Anders Klostergaard Petersen

“…Strangely enough, this obvious perspective is not applied in the examination of Christian missionaries who are considered an invasive species. …”
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Towards a postmissionary review of mission station names in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe by Gift Masengwe, Bekithemba Dube

“…Norming the mission station, missionaries named Dadaya to transmit images, symbols and meanings known to New Zealand supporting churches. …”
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Confucian Response to the Challenge Posed by Catholicism: Wang Fuzhi’s Views of Catholicism by Huanyou Li

“…Despite his lifelong dedication to Confucianism, the challenges posed by Catholicism and the activities of missionaries compelled him to reassess and, in some instances, embrace new ideas that deviated from his predecessors’ stance.…”
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Les Catholiques à Constantinople. Galata et les églises de rite latin au xviie siècle by Elisabetta Borromeo

“…On the base of the accounts of the catholic missionaries and some Ottoman documents (kept in the archives of Saint Peter and Paul’s church in Istanbul), this study examines the legal status of these Catholics, their distribution in the urban space as well as the means they used to expressing their identity.…”
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Marrons et réfugiés entre Guyane française et Brésil : nouvelles sources et nouvelles approches by Vincent Huyghues-Belrose

“…It then shows the importance of the Jesuit and Spiritan missionaries whose position and role vis-à-vis the fugitives are reconsidered, as well as the influence of the “Portuguese refugees” on French Guiana.…”
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Research on Tonkin – Cochinchina Civil War (Vietnam) During the 17th and 18th Centuries Through Western Materials by Anh Truong

“…When researching this matter, the author used Western materials, including writings, reports, correspondences, diaries, etc., of Western missionaries, merchants, and travellers used to operate in Vietnam in the 17th and 18th centuries. …”
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Paradygmat krajowego, instytucjonalnego zaangażowania misyjnego na podstawie działalności Prokury Misyjnej Misjonarzy Oblatów Maryi Niepokalanej (1969-2022) by Marcin Jan Wrzos

“… The Missionary Procuration of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (1969-2022) is a national institution supporting Oblate, but not only, missionary activity ad gentes. …”
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The Conflicts Among Religious Orders of Christianity in China During the 17th and 18th Centuries by Anh Truong

“…In the course of evangelization, the struggle for influence as well as the right to manage missionary affairs in China at that time created conflicts among Christian religious orders. …”
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The Roman Catholic Mission and leprosy control in colonial Ogoja Province, Nigeria, 1936-1960 by Manton, J

“…My analysis focuses on the RCM Ogoja leprosy scheme, founded in 1945 after almost a decade of failed efforts and war-induced delay, under the auspices of St. Patrick's Missionary Society (Kiltegan) and administered by the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM), two recently founded and predominantly Irish Catholic missionary societies. …”

'Women in an extraordinary time': the transnational network and educational spaces of the Canadian Eiwa Girls' mission schools in 1920s and 1930s Japan by Dugal, A

“…The Tōyō Eiwa Jogakkō, Shizuoka Eiwa Jogakkō, and Yamanashi Eiwa Jogakkō girls’ mission schools were founded by the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada (from 1925 the United Church of Canada) in the 1880s in Tokyo, Shizuoka, and Kōfu, Japan respectively. …”

Luís Fróis’s História de Japam: aims and methods by Takamura, JA

“…</p> <p>In the História anything that is controversial or could depict the missionaries in a bad light is avoided or minimised; the Jesuits’ errors are usually blamed on their enemies. …”

Acteurs locaux de l’implantation du catholicisme dans le pays Bamiléké au Cameroun by Célestine Colette Fouellefak Kana‑Dongmo

“…This article studies the strategy of the French missionaries of the Sacré-Cœur of Saint-Quentin for the evangelization of the country bamiléké in Cameroun during the 20th century. …”
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Aproximaciones al verbo ser en las gramáticas misioneras del tagalo by Marlon James S. Sales

“…This paper examines how attribution in Tagalog is adapted and explained by missionaries during the Spanish colonial period by comparing it to the verb “ser.” …”
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Kenosistizm, as a characteristic feature of the religious doctrine of the great white fraternity by V. Grynko

“…The complicated process of the formation of post-Soviet countries has created favorable conditions for the development of various neoregliginiph cultures, the majority of which have become widespread mainly due to the activity of foreign missionaries. Therefore, the phenomenon of the "Great White Brotherhood" founded by Kyivan Y. …”
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