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Island Apologizes for Eating Missionary

South Pacific community hosts kin for reconciliation event

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 7, 2009 6:07 AM CST

(Newser) – In one of the stranger meetings we've seen lately, descendants of a British missionary and the descendants of cannibals who killed and ate him 170 years ago got together yesterday to bury the hatchet. It seems the South Pacific island of Erromango, now predominantly Christian,... Read full story »

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Island Apologizes for Eating Missionary

South Pacific community hosts kin for reconciliation event

South Pacific • missionary • Christians • conversion • Cannibal • John Williams • cannibalism

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