FIFTY YEARS ago five missionaries were brutally murdered in the Ecuadorian jungle by members of the Waodani tribe they went to serve. And then something amazing happened: the killers became Christians – and later baptised the children of the men they’d speared.

A new film, End of the Spear, commemorates these events. One of the missionaries explained why they didn’t carry a gun for self-defence: “We’re ready to see heaven; they’re not.”

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