Today’s missionaries focus on Thailand

In the underdeveloped area of the Chiang Rai Akha's highlands, Thailand, many Christian missionaries are actively evangelising local villagers very successfully reports Asian Times. Over the past decade, a majority of villagers in the area have become Christian. Matthew McDaniel told David Fullbrook of Asian Times that “65 percent of 150 Akha villages, home to 35,000 people, now are Christian.”

McDaniel says over 100 organisations are presently in the area, so many that it has become a “free-for-all.”

Thailand is rapidly becoming Christianised due to the growing openness of its non-Christian population and desire to reach out into the world. Few restrictions occur in this mostly non-Christian country, where pagan and tribal religion is not uncommon. Missionaries are beginning to reach the many millions in such places as of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Yunnan in southern China.

"It seems many of these missionaries are agents for Christian fundamentalist groups, especially from the USA, who are competing to expand by converting more people" said Ralana Maleeprasert, the head of Research and Development at the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security in Thailand.