What did the missionaries work to do during the 16th century?

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In the sixteenth century Catholic missionaries took the faith to pagans in the Far East, they attempted to stem the damage done by the new protestant heresy and bring the protestants back to the Church, and spread the faith in Africa and the Americas, and other newly explored regions by the Europeans.
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