Yayori Matsui Religion

First of all, I cannot omit the story of Annalena Tonelli. She was eager to help Muslim refugees. She was not a doctor but focused on building hospitals and treating tuberculosis which was prevalent in Kenya. Even though she suffered a lot of assaults and even expelled, she did not abandon her mission. She started her mission again in Somalia. She was the friends of all in where she lived regardless of their religious tradition, and she believed that this is the calling from Jesus. Tonelli did not focus on conversion but on showing her life serving the poor and the week with God’s love to all as a testimony for God. What I really impressed is that all Muslims who know her thought that she is their loving friend in spite of what she was a Christian.

From this book, my stereotype about mission is totally changed. Before reading this book, I thought that the major purpose of mission makes people having conversion, and medical care and any other welfare works are minor. Personally, I am inspired by Yayori Matsui. I am a Korean, so several Korean women who suffered sex slavery through Japanese military are still alive. Their traumatic wounds are not cured because Japanese’s government has not had proper apology and adequate repentance, rather attempting to distort the history. Matsui,
From this, the very important issue is that what values will be better between tradition and life. This is not easy to answer because tradition would be the cultural identity of the races or country. Without agreements from indigenous people and their leaders, it would be regarded as cultural imperialists. However, if people suffer abusive treatment by tradition and are situated under dangerous and abusive culture, such as female genital mutilation, we need to have profound consideration how to see and treat the situation even though we cannot get the partnership with indigenous