Some evangelicals say John Allen Chau’s push to contact an isolated island tribe in the Indian Ocean was reckless.
Tag: Chau, John Allen (d 2018)
Missionary’s Killing Reignites Debate About Isolated Tribes: Contact, Support or Stay Away?
There are dozens of communities that continue to live completely off the grid, mostly in the Amazon, where drug traffickers, miners and ranchers threaten them.
‘The Goal Is to Change Hearts, Not to Change Cultures’: Missionaries on the Death of John Allen Chau
The death of an American missionary this month has led to an internal reckoning among many of his fellow missionaries.
Have You Worked as a Missionary? We Want to Hear From You
The Times would like to better understand how missionaries are reacting to the death of an American missionary, John Allen Chau.
A Man’s Last Letter Before Being Killed on a Forbidden Island
John Allen Chau’s letter to his parents from the Andamans lays out a disturbing account of his final days trying to spread Christianity.