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Group: Hesse (-Kassel), Electorate of
People: Richard Parkes Bonington
Topic: Russo-Kazan Wars: Wars of Vasily III
Location: La Paz City La Paz Bolivia

The church's work of converting Filipinos is …

Years: 1540 - 1683
The church's work of converting Filipinos is facilitated by the absence of other organized religions, except for Islam, which predominates in the south.

The missionaries have their greatest success among women and children, although the pageantry of the church has a wide appeal, reinforced by the incorporation of Filipino social customs into religious observances, for example, in the fiestas celebrating the patron saint of a local community

The eventual outcome is a new cultural community of the main Malay lowland population, from which the Muslims (known by the Spanish as Moros, or Moors) and the upland tribal peoples of Luzon remain detached and alienated.