Passage: During the Age of Discovery, the Roman Catholic Church established a number of Missions in the Americas and other colonies in order to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples. At the same time, missionaries such as Francis Xavier as well as other Jesuits, Augustinians, Franciscans and Dominicans were moving into Asia and the Far East. The Portuguese sent missions into Africa. The most significant failure of Roman Catholic missionary work was in Ethiopia. Although its ruler, Emperor Susenyos, had publicly declared his conversion to Catholicism in 1622, the declaration of Roman Catholicism as the official religion in 1626 led to increasing civil war. Following Susenyos' abdication, his son and successor Fasilides expelled archbishop Afonso Mendes and his Jesuit brethren in 1633, then in 1665 ordered the remaining religious writings of the Catholics burnt. On the other hand, other missions  were relatively peaceful and focused on integration rather than cultural imperialism. The first Catholic Church was built in Beijing in 1650. The emperor granted freedom of religion to Catholics. Ricci had modified the Catholic faith to Chinese thinking, permitting among other things the veneration of the dead. The Vatican disagreed and forbade any adaptation in the so-called Chinese Rites controversy in 1692 and 1742.
How many groups were moving into Asia and the Far East? How many times did the Vatican forbade any adaptation in the so-called Chinese Rites controversy? How many times did the Vatican forbaded any adaptation in the so-called Chinese Rites controversy? How many years after Emperor Susenyos declaired his conversion to Catholicism was it made the official releition in Ethiopia? How many years after Fasilides expelled archbishop Afonso Mendes and his Jesuit brethren did he order the remaining religious writings of the Catholics burnt? How many years after Roman Catholicism was made the official religion of Ethiopa was the Catholic archbishop and his Jesuit brethren expelled? How many years after the rulers of Ethiopia expelled the Catholic archbishop were the remaining religious writings of the Catholics burnt? How many years passed between Emperor Susenyos' conversion to Catholicism and its declaration as the official religion of Ethiopia? How many years passed between the expelling of Mendes and the burning of the religious writings? How many years passed between the explusion of archbishop Afonso Mendes from Ethipoia and the burning of the last Catholic writings? How many years passed between the first Catholic church in Beijing and the Vatican forbidding any adaptation in the Chinese Rites controversy? The Chinese were allowed to venerate the dead by what authority? What happened first: Fasilides expelled archbishop Afonso Mendes or writings of the Catholics burnt? What happened second: Fasilides expelled archbishop Afonso Mendes or writings of the Catholics burnt? What populations were the missionaries made from? Which happened first, the Vatican forbidding Chinese Rites or the construction of the first Catholic Church in Beijing? Which mission was a failure? Who was Faslides' father? Who was Susenyos' son? Who was born first: Susenyos or Fasilides? Who was born last: Susenyos or Fasilides? Why did the Roman Catholic Church establish missions in the Americas?