Posts Tagged ‘Western Missionaries’


China Missionaries Murdered in Boxer Rebellion



China’s forced exposure to the West ignited sparks of nativist anti-foreignism…. the worst of such outbreaks was the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, during which rebels laid siege to the foreign legation quarter in Peking for fifty-five days. The rebels struck particularly hard at both Chinese and foreign missionaries. Of the more than 230 Western missionaries [...]

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Eric Lidell – Missionary to China



One prominent China missionaries who died in internment was Eric Lidell, the hero of the Oscar-Award winning movie Chariots of Fire.

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