Death and displacement
When Japanese forces invaded New Guinea during the Second World War, there was a large missionary presence in the territory that had been built up in the preceding fifty years. The territory was previously a German possession but had been administered as a trust territory of Australia under a League...
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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[2017]
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2017, Volume: 94, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-59 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBS Australia; Oceania KDB Roman Catholic Church RJ Mission; missiology |
Summary: | When Japanese forces invaded New Guinea during the Second World War, there was a large missionary presence in the territory that had been built up in the preceding fifty years. The territory was previously a German possession but had been administered as a trust territory of Australia under a League of Nations mandate after the First World War. Geographically, it consisted of the northern part of the eastern half of the New Guinea mainland; the large islands of New Britain and New Ireland, which lay to the north-east; and the Bougainville portion of the Solomon Islands, further to the east. There were missionaries from both Protestant and Catholic Churches and, because of history, many of these were of German background. |
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ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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