Quakers

===Missions to Asia and Africa===
[[File:BrummanaMissionHouse.jpg|thumb|Friends' Syrian Mission, 1874, built this mission house in [[Ramallah]].]]
Following the [[Christian revival]]s in the mid-19th century, Friends in Great Britain sought also to start missionary activity overseas. The first missionaries were sent to [[Benares]] ([[Varanasi]]), in India, in 1866. The Friends Foreign Mission Association was formed in 1868 and sent missionaries to [[Madhya Pradesh]], India, forming what is now the Mid-India Yearly Meeting. Later it spread to [[Madagascar]] from 1867, China from 1896, [[Sri Lanka]] from 1896, and [[Pemba Island]] from 1897.<ref name="mundus"/>

The Friends Syrian Mission was established in 1874, which among other institutions ran the [[Ramallah Friends Schools]], which still exist today. The Swiss missionary [[Theophilus Waldmeier]] founded [[Brummana High School]] in [[Lebanon]] in 1873,<ref name=mundus>{{Cite web |title=Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom |url=http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search?coll_id=235&inst_id=7 |publisher=MUNDUS |access-date=6 December 2011 |archive-date=15 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615101530/http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search?coll_id=235&inst_id=7 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Evangelical Friends Churches from [[Ohio Yearly Meeting]] sent missionaries to India in 1896,<ref name="Century of Planting">{{Cite book |last=Nixon |first=Eva Anna |title=A Century of Planting: A history of the American Friends' mission in India |publisher=Barclay Press |location=Newburg, OR, US |year=1985 |isbn=0-913342-55-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/centuryofplantin00nixo}}</ref> forming what is now [[Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting]]. Cleveland Friends went to [[Mombasa]], [[Kenya]], and started what became the most successful Friends' mission. Their Quakerism spread within [[Kenya]] and to [[Uganda]], [[Tanzania]], [[Burundi]], and [[Rwanda]].