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From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is history at its best. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya is readable, informative, gripping, and above all, honest. It helps readers understand the life and role of a missionary through real life examples of missionaries throughout history. We see these men and women as fallible and human in their failures as well as their successes. These great leaders of missions are presented as real people,...

Pliny reported to the emperor that “the temples, which had been well-nigh abandoned, are beginning to be frequented again” and “fodder for the sacrificial animals, too, is beginning to find a sale again.” And he sums up his success by saying: “From all this it is easy to judge what a multitude of people can be reclaimed, if an opportunity is granted them to renounce Christianity.”12 A similar outcome was reported in Alexandria in the mid-third century during the persecution under Emperor Decius.
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