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[[File:Hong Kong Christians at Gateway Camp.jpg|thumbnail|right|350px|[[Hong Kong]] Christians at Gateway Camp. In 2005, there were four times as many non-Western World Christians as there were [[Western World]] Christians.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077 Is Christianity taking over the planet?]</ref>]]
[[File:Hong Kong Christians at Gateway Camp.jpg|thumbnail|right|450px|[[Hong Kong]] Christians at Gateway Camp. In 2005, there were four times as many non-Western World Christians as there were [[Western World]] Christians.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077 Is Christianity taking over the planet?]</ref>]]
A '''missionary''' is one who spreads a [[religion]] or [[faith]]. [[Christianity|Christian]] missionaries were involved in many early [[colonialism]] efforts, explaining the spread and staying power of [[Catholicism]] in South American nations like [[Mexico]] and throughout the [[Pacific]] nations.
A '''missionary''' is one who spreads a [[religion]] or [[faith]]. [[Christianity|Christian]] missionaries were involved in many early [[colonialism]] efforts, explaining the spread and staying power of [[Catholicism]] in South American nations like [[Mexico]] and throughout the [[Pacific]] nations.
== Protestant missionaries and their effect on history ==
== Protestant missionaries and their effect on history ==
[[File:Niall Ferguson.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|The atheist and [[Harvard University]] historian [[Niall Ferguson]] declared: "Through a mixture of hard work and thrift the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] societies of the North and West Atlantic achieved the most rapid economic growth in history."<ref>[http://blog.tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] By Hugh Whelchel on September 24, 2012</ref> ]]
''See also:'' [[Protestantism]] and [[Protestant cultural legacies]] and [[Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]]
''See also:'' [[Protestantism]] and [[Protestant cultural legacies]] and [[Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]]