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Events
1622
Pope Gregory XV creates the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith to organize and direct the foreign missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
Authority for the date: www.britannica.com/on-this-day/June-061870
Death of Anna Hinderer, aged forty-three. She had served as a missionary in Nigeria until ill-health forced her to return to England. There, despite suffering, she continued to work among factory girls and children of the poor.
Authority for the date: Moore, Henry Charles. Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines.1882
On the day of his sister’s marriage, blind parson George Matheson experiences deep mental suffering, and writes his beloved hymn, “O Love that wilt not let me go.”
Authority for the date: Terry, Lindsay. Heart-Warming Hymn Stories.1886
Death in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of John Williamson Nevin, a staunchly Calvinist theologian, who had opposed nineteenth-century revivalism, believing it was too individualistic and did not uphold the historic confessions of the church.
Authority for the date: Britannica1900
Li Chouzi, an ardent, soul-winning Christian girl, and all the other Chinese Christians of her village are hacked to death by revolutionaries known as Boxers.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.1903
Death of Bishop Joseph A. Beebe of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now known as the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) after preaching the gospel fifty-two years and serving the church thirty-five years as a bishop.
Authority for the date: Phillips, C. H. The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America.1925
Harold Wildish boards the Amakura, bound for South America. He had received word to fill the place of an ailing missionary but had only one British pound in money. He went upstairs and spread the letter out before the Lord, saying, “You know what I need.” Next morning, he received a check in the mail for twenty-five pounds. “But I must have thirty-five,” he prayed. The next day he received another letter from the same person. “I could not sleep last night thinking of you. I believe you must need the additional enclosed ten pounds.”
Authority for the date: http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000227.php1991
Christian brothers, Zaher Kamel, a doctor, and Maher Kamel, a high school teacher, are gunned down by Muslim radicals in Qena, Upper Egypt.
Authority for the date: Bistawros, Baheg T. The Coptic Christians of Egypt Today: Under Threat of Annihilation.2010
In Edinburgh, Scotland, groups including Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, Pentecostal, and major Protestant churches affirm The Common Call, which among other assertions states, “We believe the church, as a sign and symbol of the reign of God, is called to witness to Christ today by sharing in God’s mission of love through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.”
Authority for the date: Preface of Evangelism and Diakonia in Context