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If you thought that the age of the Christian missionaries who traveled around the world to spread the Word of God and evangelize the locals had ended, think again, they have simply become more furtive.
A recent one investigation By the Guardian and the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reveals that the missionaries have left audio devices with solar energy in the Javari Valley in Brazil, near the Peruvian border, in an attempt to evangelize the indigenous Amazon indigenous people isolated or recently contacted. The devices play biblical readings in Portuguese and Spanish.
For example, a device identified by The Guardian announces: “Let’s see what Paul says while considering his own life in Chapter 3 of Philippians, verse 4:” If someone else thinks they have reasons to trust the flesh, I have more. “
The indigenous territory of the Javari Valley has the highest concentration of Not contacted Human groups in the world. To protect the indigenous tribes, the National Foundation of Brazil for the Indian (FUNAI) made illegal enter the Javari Valley in 1987. However, the locals have reported up to seven audio devices, although the investigation ensured evidence of photos and videos of one: a yellow and gray phone size gadget that materialized in a town of Korubo and that plays an open audio with a baptist United States.
He Korube They are members of a recently contacted group of indigenous peoples known for their war clubs. According to the investigation, the device is now in the hands of a Korube woman named Mayá.
According to the reports, the device is called “messenger”, and the Baptist Organization in the Touch Ministries are donated to “unreached” people from all over the world, as reported by the investigation. In fact, its website Clearly presents what seems to be a version of the device, along with a large number of similar devices.
“What started with a solar energy audio player containing the Bible and Dr. Stanley’s messages is now much more than a device,” says the website. “Wherever we go, we look for the correct solution at the right time, be it one of our proprietary devices or other tool, make sure that the message of salvation in Jesus Christ is accessible to those who have never heard.”
However, the director of Operations of the Ministries in Touch, Seth Gray, told The Guardian that, although she knew the missionaries of other organizations that bring messengers to the regions where it is illegal to do so, “we (in contact with the staff) are not going to any place that they are not allowed.”
In the event that someone forgot since the last time we report on Westerners trying to contact isolated tribal people, such contact could transmit devastating diseases to communities with little or no immunity. Of course, this risk is greater in the case of direct physical contact, instead of leaving outdoor gadgets, but is still in violation of Brazil’s public policy for the protection of indigenous peoples isolated from not establishing contact.
