Christian missionaries

Gospel-bringing religious workers

Christian missionaries are people who travel to spread Christianity, typically to regions where it isn't the dominant religion.

Missionary work historically combined religious conversion with education, healthcare, and humanitarian aid—though critics note its entanglement with colonialism and cultural erasure.

Modern missionaries range from short-term volunteer trips to lifetime commitments: She spent thirty years as a Christian missionary in Papua New Guinea.

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church planting · conversion · gospel · pastoral care · discipleship · preaching · education programs · language translation · martyrdom · worship services · cultural sensitivity · community development · unreached peoples · revival · Bible translation · health clinics · syncretism · liberation theology

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proselytizing vs. receiving

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Those who switched faiths

indigenous peoples · pagans · heathens

religious engagement approach

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People choosing isolation

monastic orders · parish priests · recluses · desert fathers · mystics

religious proselytization direction

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Christian restorationist movement

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