When America's first ordained missionaries sailed from here to India 200 years ago, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America's most potent export: Christianity.
That's the message that will reverberate across nine Judson 200 commemorative events, running Feb. 5-20 in and around Salem. Speakers -- evangelicals, mainline Protestants and scholars -- will recall how the course of history changed with Adoniram Judson and four other missionaries.
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