@article{Κισκήρα_1995, title={Το περιοδικό missionary herald: Μια αθησαύριστη πηγή για την ιστορία του Μικρασιατικού ελληνισμού}, volume={11}, url={https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltiokms/article/view/2432}, DOI={10.12681/deltiokms.51}, abstractNote={<p>The ABCFM (American Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions) was<br />organized at Bradford, Massachusetts, 1810 by a little band of men dedicating<br />themselves to be missionaries to the heathen. Most of these men were students of<br />secret religious societies at Andover Theological Seminary, by that time,<br />Andover Theological Seminary was re-invigorating New England Congregationalism.<br />Thus, with a comparative cosmopolitan outlook, the American Board (now<br />United Church Board for World Ministries) in the early nineteenth century was<br />taking missions around the world.<br />The attention of American Christians was first turned to the Ottoman Empire<br />as a field for missionary effort, when PI. Fisk and L. Parsons were selected to<br />begin a mission to Palestine 1819. It soon became evident that there was no hope<br />of reaching the Jews and the Moslems in Palestine, so the first thing to be done<br />was to attempt to reform the Oriental Churches.<br />Thus the ABCFM led the foundations of the Syrian Mission (1823), the<br />Armenian Mission (1830-1831), the Mission to Greece (1831) and the Nestorian<br />Mission (1834). Mission stations, schools, medical work and publications were<br />initiated among the Bulgarians in 1858 and educational work was began among<br />the Albanians in 1889.<br />Driven by a compelling sense of Christian duty among hostility isolation and<br />deprivation, the American Board Missionaries persisted in founding schools,<br />mission presses and hospitals in the Ottoman Empire for over a century.<br />The organ of the American Board was its monthly publication, the Missionary<br />Herald ( 1820-1832).<br />Information about the Ottoman Empire covers approximately 25-30% of the<br />material in each issue. Data concerning Greece is limited to the years 1831-1869,<br />while information about the Greeks living under Turkish occupation is dispersed</p>}, journal={Δελτίο Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών}, author={Κισκήρα Κωνσταντίνα}, year={1995}, month={Ιανουαρίου}, pages={119–123} }