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The Mission
This places the white European missionaries in two dilemmas. They have been ordered by their religious leadership to evacuate, leaving their congregation to the deprivations of the slavers. But if they refuse, their 200 year old catholic religious order, the Society of Jesus, will be dissolved by order of the European catholic monarchs and their own lives will be forfeit. It posed an even greater theological dilemma. Is the follower of Jesus to fight? If so, under what circum
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