Sentence examples for established missions from inspiring English sources

Jesuits established missions in Japan, China, and India.

The slave trade was abolished after Europeans arrived in the 19th century and established missions in the area.

In the 17th century the Jesuits established missions (reducciones) in eastern Paraguay among the Guaraní of the Paraná River.

The Anglican church established missions early in the 20th century at many settlements, including Pangnirtung (Panniqtuuq), on the northern shore of the sound.

In the mid-1830s he and fellow missionary Henry Harmon Spalding established missions in the Oregon country—Whitman among the Cayuse Indians at Waiilatpu (near present-day Walla Walla, Washington) and Spalding among the Nez Percé at Lapwai (near present-day Lewiston, Idaho).

Although the Spanish had contact with these societies, they established missions further north, near Lake Okeechobee.

The wives established mission schools.

He established mission stations to feed and house the poor and in 1878 changed the name of his organization to the Salvation Army.

They moved northward, establishing missions throughout California to just north of San Francisco Bay.

Interned by the Spanish authorities, he obtained his release by leading an expedition party to establish missions in Texas.

With another missionary, Samuel Parker, he was sent to investigate the possibilities for establishing missions in Oregon country, then jointly occupied by the United States and Great Britain.