Two women and one man waved to us from the opposite riverbank . . . and thus occurred the contact for which we had prayed to God.” The three Aucas went over to the camp, and the man even took a ...

On January 8, 1956, five Christian missionaries lost their lives in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador at the hands of the Waodani, an isolated tribe known for its extreme violence, even within their ...

In January 1956, members of the Auca tribe in Ecuador attacked and killed five American missionaries. They had made contact with the isolated tribe to try to convert them to Christianity. Mike ...

Authorities in Ecuador are probing claims that five Amazon tribespeople have been killed by illegal loggers. The group, from the Taromenane and Tagaeri tribe, was attacked in the eastern Yasuni ...