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Cover of phonograph album with story of the "Auca martyrs," missionaries who died in Ecuador in 1956.
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Nate Saint, one of the missionaries who died in Ecuador.
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Missionary house, Congo, 1950s or 60s.
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Missionaries evacuated from Congo in 1964. Courtesy of Crossworld.
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Paul Carlson, missionary killed in Congo, 1964.
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Urbana, InterVarsity's missions convention, 1961.
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The band Soul Liberation playing at Urbana 70.
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Evangelist Tom Skinner at Urbana 1970.
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Ad for Holy Land tourism before the 1967 war.
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Translation booth at the 1974 Lausanne Congress.
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René Padilla's galvanizing sermon at the Lausanne Congress.
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Leaders of the church growth movement: Ralph Winter, Vergil Gerber, Donald McGavran, C. Peter Wagner.
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Richard Wurmbrand testifying before the Senate about Christian Persecution, 1966.
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SA Congress on Mission and Evangelism, Durban, 1973, Michael Cassidy, Billy Graham, and Walter Smith. With kind permission of African Enterprise.
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South African anti-apartheid activist Caesar Molebatsi, right center.
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Jerry Falwell after traveling to South Africa, urges Americans to buy Kruggerrands. Keystone Pictures/Alamy Stock Photo.
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Frank Chikane had been a minister in the Apostolic Faith Mission before being suspended for his anti-apartheid activism. There was an attempt on his life in 1989. He is speaking at a meeting in 1986.
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The 10/40 Window was a map of missionary opportunity.
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The 10/40 Window also marked those places supposedly "enslaved" by Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
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Advertising for the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, late 1990s.
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Sudan. South Sudan. Bahr El Ghazal. Anguoth. Women and children returning to village for a slave redemption ceremony. © 1999 Didier Ruef
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Sudan. South Sudan. Bahr El Ghazal. Mayen Abun. John Ebner, US citizen works for Christian Solidarity International (CSI. He buys back Dinka slaves from northern Sudanese traders. © 1999 Didier Ruef
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Still from a YouTube video promoting short-term missions.
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Ad for short-term missions by Wycliffe Bible Translators. Early 2000s.
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Samaritan's Purse prepares to deliver aid and religious pamphlets in Iraq.
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Christianity Today on torture.
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Wisconsin pastor Dick Robinson in Southern Sudan in 2006, with Sudanese evangelist John Philip and a young translator.
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Baptism in Southern Sudan.
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Boys at Hope School in Southern Sudan, 2006.
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Uganda/Rwanda: Leaders of the East African Revival, late 1930s.
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Participants in the East African Revival, in Gahani, Rwanda, 1952.
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Rick Warren became a prominent activist on HIV/AIDS in Africa, particularly Rwanda and Uganda.
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Anti-LGBTQ activist Rev. Martin Ssempa, leading a march in Kampala in 2009.
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LGBTQ Ugandans speak out.
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InterVarsity's Urban Trek advertises "Kingdom Work."
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