The stranger in the surf was a 26-year-old American evangelical Christian missionary, John Allen Chau, who believed he was on a mission from God – “The Great Commission” – to convert the island’s ...

A U.S. missionary gone-rogue, convinced his purpose in life was to convert an isolated Indian tribe to Christianity, stopped to train in Israel and South Africa before meeting his death on the island ...

Sky Yang plays John Allen Chau in Justin Lin's "Last Days," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Vertical LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 (UPI) --Director Justin Lin says he wanted to make a film about John ...

In 2018, John Allen Chau, the outdoors lover-turned-missionary who grew up in Vancouver, Wash., was killed at age 26 trying to evangelize the largely uncontacted Indigenous people of India’s North ...

SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains spoilers. You’ve seen it so often, you might roll your eyes, but in “Last Days,” it really happens: American missionary John Allen Chau could have died as ...

While the weekend box office was dominated by Chainsaw Man, which far exceeded most industry projections, there was another film to arrive in limited release called Last Days. This indie debuted at ...

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 28 (UPI) --Last Days, which premiered Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival, is a respectful dramatization of the events that led to John Allen Chau's death on North Sentinel ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. An American missionary trying to meet and convert one of the most isolated hunter-and-gatherer tribes in the world offered them ...

I’ve been following—with a mix of fascination and repulsion—the story of a young American, John Allen Chau, who was recently killed when he persistently attempted to make personal contact with the ...