Aizawl: All the offices of the state
government and churches remained close today as Mizoram
observed the 'Missionary day', the 117th anniversary of the
arrival of the first Christian priests from UK.
Praise and worship services were held in different
churches belonging to different denominations all over the
state to mark the day.
On this day in 1894, two English missionaries - J.H.
Lorrain and F.W. Savidge, fondly called by the Mizos as Pu
Buanga and Sapupa respectively - set foot at Sairang village,
23 km west of here.
Within half a century, almost all the Mizos, earlier
animists, were converted into Christianity.
The Presbyterian Church Synod in 1974 decided to
observe January 11 as 'Missionary day'.
-PTI