Torres Strait Islanders Celebrating 150 Years of the Gospel
Torres Strait Islanders Celebrating 150 Years of the Gospel Reported by Vision News Team | vision.org.au Thursday, July 1st, 2021 The people of Torres Strait will today celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the gospel of Jesus in their region [on July the 1st.] The event will be marked by The Coming of the Light festival, which remembers the arrival of the gospel on the islands between Cape York and Papua New Guinea. The Sydney Anglicans website says the festival recalls the arrival of the Reverend Samuel McFarlane in 1871, when he sailed to Erub or Darnley Island. The elders of t...
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