Hintz, Martin. Indonesia (series: Enchantment of the World). Chicago: Childrens Press (1993), pg. 30–31. The Missionary is a 1982 British comedy film directed by Richard Loncraine, and starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith. It was produced by George Harrison, Denis O'Brien, Palin (who also wrote the screenplay) and Neville C. Thompson.

Fred Prosper Manget, medical missionary to China, founder of Houzhou General Hospital, Houzhou, China, also a doctor with the Flying Tigers and U.S. Army in Kunming, China, during World War II [106] [107] [108] Adoniram Judson – American missionary to Burma whose conversion to Baptist beliefs en route to the mission field led to the founding of the first Baptist association in the U.S. She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). [15] Her father, who was involved in Albanian-community politics in Ottoman North Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old. [13] [c] He was born in Prizren (today in Kosovo), however, his family was from Mirdita (present-day Albania). [16] [17] Her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova, [18] believed by her offspring to be Bishtazhin. [19] Where is my faith? Even deep down [...] there is nothing but emptiness and darkness. [...] If there be God – please forgive me. When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul. [142] Plaque dedicated to Mother Teresa in Wenceslas Square, Olomouc, Czech RepublicFind sources: "Missionary"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( February 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Produce and distribute books on the Sikh faith in English and Panjabi, and other languages to enlighten the younger generation of Sikhs as well as non-Sikhs. Meanwhile, the Bishop of London receives numerous complaints from other denominations about Charles's unusual methods. He gives Charles a choice: leave the mission or the Church. Charles chooses the latter, and is joined by Isabel. Photos at the end of the film show that they have two children together. The Catholic Church declared St. Francis Xavier the first patron saint of Calcutta in 1986. [169] Legacy and depictions in popular culture

At the height of the Siege of Beirut in 1982, Mother Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas. [62] Accompanied by Red Cross workers, she travelled through the war zone to the hospital to evacuate the young patients. [63] Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – wife of Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams; Church of Scotland missionary in the Eastern Himalayas Antes, Peter; Geertz, Armin W.; Warne, Randi R. (2004). New Approaches to the Study of Religion. Volume 1 - Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches (p. 471 cites Fader 1986: 95, p. 472 cites Humphreys 1968: 78–79). Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-017698-8. Card, Rachel (12 October 2020). "Missionary work is just another name for colonization". North Texas Daily. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020 . Retrieved 2 November 2021.

Mother Teresa, played by Cara Francis the FantasyGrandma, rap battled Sigmund Freud in Epic Rap Battles of History, a comedy rap YouTube series created by Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd. The rap was released on YouTube 22 September 2019. [196] She opened a hospice for those with leprosy, calling it Shanti Nagar (City of Peace). [48] The Missionaries of Charity established leprosy-outreach clinics throughout Calcutta, providing medication, dressings and food. [49] The Missionaries of Charity took in an increasing number of homeless children; in 1955, Mother Teresa opened Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for orphans and homeless youth. [50] Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910– 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [b] at the age of 18 she moved to Ireland and later to India, where she lived most of her life. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is her feast day. Cavendish, Richard (ed.). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (vol. 11). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1970); pg. 1481. After ten years of doubt, Mother Teresa described a brief period of renewed faith. After Pope Pius XII's death in 1958, she was praying for him at a requiem mass when she was relieved of "the long darkness: that strange suffering." However, five weeks later her spiritual dryness returned. [144]

Of missionary organizations, the most famous is probably The Sikh Missionary Society UK. The aim of the Sikh Missionary Society is the Advancement of the Sikh faith in the U.K. and abroad, engages in various activities: [80] [81] [82] [83] Chryssides, George D. (1999). Exploring New Religions. Continuum International Publishing Group. p.370. ISBN 978-0-8264-5959-6.Padmasambhava, The Lotus Born, was a sage guru from Oḍḍiyāna who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighbouring countries in the 8th century. a b Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: HarperCollins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 523. Many have been deeply flawed, corrupted by pride and prejudice, driven by the lust for fame and fortune as much as faith. Their legacy is an equally divided mixture of cultural enrichment and colonial exploitation. Ghana Shantidas Adhikari was a Hindu preacher from Sylhet who converted King Pamheiba of Manipur to Hinduism in 1717. [35] Geraldine Chaplin played Mother Teresa in Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor, which received a 1997 Art Film Festival award. [192]