December 3
1170: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, returns to England after six years of exile in France.
1552: Repose of Francis Xavier, one of the founding members of the Jesuit order and an ardent missionary, in China while awaiting the permission to preach there. He evangelised all the way from Portugal to Japan.
1557: Protestants in Scotland led by John Knox sign their First Covenant at Edinburgh, to unite Presbyterians under the name: “Congregation of the Lord.”
1659: Gabriel, the Orthodox metropolitan of Ganos and the administrator of Prousa, is persecuted to death, because he was not ready to convert to Islam denying his faith.
1833: Caleb Mills, a former agent for Sabbath-schools in Kentucky and Indiana who had become a Presbyterian, begins the Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, to meet the educational needs of the region.
1902: Birth of Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who led Japan’s air attack on Pearl Harbor on 12th July 1941, but who converted to Christianity in 1950.
1903: (Probable date) Sundar Singh, a Hindu fanatic teenager who had just burned the Bible and felt sorry for it, gets a vision of Christ. He immediately began to preach the gospel and was poisoned and expelled from his home.
1908: Birth of C.F.D. Moule, who later became an Anglican clergyman and a New Testament scholar and the  author of numerous autographs on Biblical studies, including The Phenomenology of the New Testament in 1967.
1926: Demise of Mok Lai Chi, a Chinese Pentecostal evangelist, an educator, and a famous editor.
1976: The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) formally organized in Chicago, by merging the former affiliates of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.
1990: Hossmein Soodmand, a pastor of the Assemblies of God, Â executed in Iran because he had refused to leave his country and his people.
2011: A Christu Sabha Church building is burned by Hindus in Tamil Nadu state, India, in a series of numerous attacks on Christians in the year.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â https://studylight.org