Time Magazine on "End of the Spear" Movie

From Time.com:

End of the Spear, [book] the story about the martyrdom of five missionaries in Ecuador 50 years ago and its long-term repercussions, which scored the country's eighth-highest box office gross at cinemas last weekend ($4.7 million) last weekend[...].

[...] a party of five missionaries were slaughtered in Ecuador by members of an Amazonian tribe called the Waodani in 1956. [...]

[...] In a breathtaking gesture, several of the dead men’s widows befriended and lived among the Waodani, and the tribe eventually converted to Christianity. One of the wives, Elisabeth Elliot, wrote about it eloquently in “Through Gates of Splendor,” [Book, DVD] which became a Christian classic. [...]

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