Christian missionary work

Spreading the faith

Christian missionary work is religious activity undertaken to spread Christianity, typically involving travel to communities where the faith is not established or is a minority.

Missionaries may evangelize, establish churches, provide humanitarian aid, or run schools and hospitals.

The practice has a complex legacy: while missionaries have built educational and medical infrastructure worldwide, their work is also associated with colonialism and the displacement of indigenous cultures.

She devoted her life to Christian missionary work in Southeast Asia.

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contextualization · dialogue · discipleship · relief · conversion · language learning · indigenous practices · worship services · outreach · apologetics · martyrdom · healthcare · literacy programs · tent making · pastoral leadership · church planting · orphanages · community outreach

Opposites
religious vs. secular purpose

Christian missionary workDoctors Without Borders

Humanitarian medical aid group

secular education · commercial enterprise

proselytizing vs. receiving conversion

Christian missionary workapostasy

Renunciation of former beliefs

deconversion · syncretism

evangelism vs. anti-religious activity

Christian missionary workreligious persecution

Harming others for faith

iconoclasm

Family

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