Some of Jesus's Apostles head east

I don't know if this is ASB due to the distance, but what would have happened if some of the Apostles headed east, towards India? Could they have made it over there, and if so what would the effects have been?

Yes, it would have made sense for some of them to go Rome. However, I would have thought that they would have known about India as well.
 
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Is East Africa out of the question at the time for proselytization?
 
Is East Africa out of the question at the time for proselytization?

It's not, but dependent from Jewish presence: first missionaries focused on Jewish communauties in the Roman Empire or along trade roads. While Arabia, Persia, or even Ethiopia had such, I'm not too sure it was the case for the Somali trading cities.
 
It's not, but dependent from Jewish presence: first missionaries focused on Jewish communauties in the Roman Empire or along trade roads. While Arabia, Persia, or even Ethiopia had such, I'm not too sure it was the case for the Somali trading cities.

Somalia was also a huge trading area for goods traveling from India to Europe and at least three Somali clams claim Israelite descent. There is a report from St Francis Xavier in 1542 on the inhabitants of the island of Soqotra in the Gulf of Aden who were Christians and claimed to be converts of St. Thomas and at the time they had significant links with the mainland Somalia but were illiterate, had no proper priests, and could only quote scripture from memory. Between then and European colonization Christianity had completely disappeared from the area but's not unlikely that once Christians were a sizable if perhaps not very important minority several centuries earlier.
 
For the Horn of Africa ...

It's not, but dependent from Jewish presence: first missionaries focused on Jewish communauties in the Roman Empire or along trade roads. While Arabia, Persia, or even Ethiopia had such, I'm not too sure it was the case for the Somali trading cities.

Look into the Kingdom of Axum in the early centuries AD
and the Coptic Christians who survived the rise of Islam
 
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Doubting Thomas went to India. Then founded the Syrian Thomas church here, its still around. (kinda)

In fact my roommate in first year was one of them. He claimed to be descended of one of the original convert families.

BTW side note. According to legend when Thomas got off the boat in india, the first person he met was a jewish kid playing the flute.

So yeah India is not ASB at all, especially since there was a significant jewish population here from around the time the first temple was destroyed.
 
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