Francisco Xavier supported and visited the Portuguese mission at Tolo on Halmahera.

Borges-Mendelblatt withdrew before the event, claiming that she lacked the support of the Portuguese mission and that she was three months pregnant.

But the depiction of the island on the map suggests it was based on the Portuguese mission of Labrador and Barcelos.

Both of the Portuguese missions were evacuated in 1635 after becoming embroiled in the power struggles for control of Tibet at that time.

Early in the 16th century the church was brought under the influence of a Portuguese mission.

An account of the Portuguese mission, which remained for several years, was written by the chaplain, Francisco Álvares.

Consequently a Portuguese mission came to Bengal to establish diplomatic relations towards the end of Husain Shah's reign.

A Portuguese mission arrived in Ndongo in 1520 but local disputes and perhaps Kongo pressure forced the missionaries to withdraw.

While Indonesia's population is nearly 90 percent Muslim, the Timorese are predominantly Roman Catholic--a vestige of Portuguese missions.

Towards the close of the 15th century the Portuguese missions into Ethiopia began.