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• We have seen, then, that starting from the first century onwards, the Gospel spread west under the missionary journeys of Paul the apostle. But the Gospel also spread east - just as far and fast as it spread west. That history, of Christianity spreading east, is almost entirely unknown and ignored in the west today, with its bias on the west and Paul’s missionary journeys.
• But as early as A.D. 52, Thomas the disciple went as far east as India, preaching and converting as he went. He certainly reached India by that date, and established congregations of believers that have remained there to this day. And from India, within a few centuries, Aramaic Christianity had reached China and Mongolia - as far east as it is possible to get.