USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mission schools were established in India as early as the 16th century. They eventually appeared on almost every continent, and persisted in some regions to the late 20th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Evangelism is the practice of spreading the Christian belief in salvation. Mission refers to the idea of missionary work, where Christians travel to an area to provide aid or education.

Detailed explanation-3: -In India, Christianity first spread among the peole of the Malabar Coast and Chennai. According to certain inscriptions, by the seventh century, there were Christian-Indian communities living in Kerala.

Detailed explanation-4: -Background to the Mission The first CMS school to be opened was Jai Narayan’s Boys’ School at Benares. The school, which was opened in 1818, was a gift from a Hindu and by 1822 classes for girls had begun, given by Miss Mary Ann Cooke, the first woman CMS missionary in India.

Detailed explanation-5: -History has dubbed Puritan missionary Eliot as “the apostle to the Indians” and celebrated him as the founder of the American missionary movement. Many Native Americans and some historians today see him as an agent of cultural genocide. The descendants of those first Christian converts, however, tell a different story.