A missionary was murdered by isolated islanders – and now the incident has become a movie

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Now the high-profile case of missionary John Chau, who was murdered on tiny North Sentinel Island in 2018, has been made into a documentary. He died trying to evangelize the unreached tribe.

The world has already written about the case of young missionary John Chau, who was killed by an isolated tribe while on a mission for the unreached group. The incident, which made headlines around the world, has now been made into a documentary.

the film the mission Produced by National Geographic, and premiering in the fall in the US and UK, it follows the life of John Chow and what happened in 2018 on the tiny North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. The purpose of arriving on the island, which may be home to one of the world’s last “Stone Age” tribes, was to evangelize.

The documentary provides insight into John Chow's identity through interviews, memoirs, and video archives.

John Chow will He felt called to reach out to the Sentinelese people. For this reason he chose to be trained by a Christian missionary group in how best to deal with unreached tribes, and is said to have also trained in linguistics with the Wycliffe Bible translators, in order to learn the language of the unknown tribe more quickly. Very little is known about the tribe on the island, but it is certain that they are known to be hostile to outsiders.

To reach the island to tell the people there about Jesus, John Chau is said to have chartered a fishing boat. The men are paid to break Indian law, which forbids them from going ashore on the island and attempting to contact the tribe.

At first His attempt to join the tribe was rejected, and on his second attempt a boy shot an arrow into his Bible. Afterwards, he is said to have written in his diary that he might call off his attempt to join the tribe, because he did not want to die.

But he decided to go there a third time, and this time he allegedly ordered the men on the fishing boat to leave after they lowered him onto the island. The men on the fishing boat reportedly saw him killed by a hail of arrows and then dragged away with ropes.