NO. Australia is called van deimans land for a reason. We have never heard of this jesus you speak of.
They give up their time and life to go to places that need God's help, and they tell people about God who care to listen about how Jesus Christ died for their sins so they can be forgiven and redeemed.
From the lighter side(!);My very young son once said, " Some African people thought missionaries were very tasty and boiled them before eating. "Most of the Africans who don't have any faith in GOD but who still believe in statues do not accept the missionaries and they kill them or eat them as they think it is legal and fair to punish them in this way...In most of the Africans countries,it is not accepted to preach because it is illegal to preach the name of JESUS which is not the formal religion of the African countries because the formal religion of the African countries is the Islam religion...but it is always depending on the country itself...we should respect the laws and the regulations of all the countries
Matteo Ricci was a member of the Society of Jesus and a Jesuit priest. He was so impressed with theology and missionaries that he was a founder of the Jesuit China Mission.
The Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
yes. bce was before christ jesus. but since jesus is a myth, there were people in bce.
Christian missionaries exist because of Jesus' command to 'preach the gospel to every creature.' (meaning people of course). Missionaries themselves love and know Jesus and wish to share the good news with others.
Missionaries in Australia are having great sucess. Where (converts) are concerned then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints would be near the top of the list.
JESUS LOL well that is true.
Did you mean the missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the earlier Christian missionaries??
Christian Missionaries went and still go to Africa because there were and still are many people who don't know Jesus.
Few people in the world today have never heard of Jesus. Even if people have listended to missionaries, such as those of the Joshua Project, and rejected the message, they have at least heard of Jesus. The Joshua Project cites 2.74 billion people as unreached with the gospel of Christ.
To spread the word of JESUS
The Christian missionaries in China were impressed with the fact that many Chinese were interested in knowing Jesus.
There are virtually people in every country of the world who believe on Jesus Christ.
Jesus
South Korea previously sent more Christian missionaries per congregation than any other country. It is currently sends the third highest number of missionaries, with the United States and India coming in second. It is second highest in sending missionaries to foreign lands, second only to the United States. (see "The Future of the Global Church" by Patrick Johnstone, pgs. 229, 233)
I don't know what country you are in, but most missionaries are either Christian or Muslim. There are Christians of all kinds-- Catholics, Lutherans, Mormons, Baptists, etc-- who send their members to various countries. Muslims have also sent out people to teach about Islam and spread the Muslim faith to other countries. Missionaries usually are there to teach you about their religion, in the hope that you will convert to it. Some missionaries also set up houses of worship (whether churches or mosques), so that you will have a place to practice your new faith. Missionaries believe that they are supposed to spread their faith; for example, Christian missionaries believe Jesus himself instructed them to do so. Most missionaries sincerely believe their religion is the only one that has the truth, so they want to share it with those who may not know much about it. Some religions do not send out missionaries. There are very few Buddhist missionaries these days (although there were some in the generation after the Buddha died; those missionaries spread Buddhism to a number of Asian countries). And Jews do not send out missionaries at all, because Jews do not believe they have the only true religion, nor do they believe they are supposed to actively try to convert people. As with Buddhism, centuries ago, some Jews did send out people to teach about Judaism, but this is not a part of modern Jewish practice. (People can and do convert to religions like Buddhism and Judaism. But these faiths do not have an organized group of people who go out to persuade you to join their religion.) Thus, given that the majority of today's missionaries are Christian or Muslim, the chances are good that the missionaries you met were from some denomination of Christianity, or possibly from Islam.