Praise and worship services were held in different churches belonging to different denominations all over the state to mark the day.
On this day in 1894, two English missionaries - J.H. Lorrain and F.W. Savidge, fondly called by the Mizos as Pu Buanga and Sapupa respectively - set foot at Sairang village, 23 km west of here.
Within half a century, almost all the Mizos, earlier animists, were converted into Christianity. The Presbyterian Church Synod in 1974 decided to observe January 11 as 'Missionary day'.
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