practicing types
Kaifeng Jews
Jewish community in Kaifeng, China
Kaifeng Jews
Overview
Kaifeng Jews (Chinese:開封猶太人; pinyin: Kāifēng Yóutàirén; Hebrew:יהדות קאיפנג, romanized: Yahădūt Qāʾyfeng) are a small community of descendants of Chinese Jews in Kaifeng, in the Henan province of China. In the early centuries of their settlement, they may have numbered around 2,500 people. Despite their isolation from the rest of the Jewish diaspora, their ancestors managed to practice Jewish traditions and customs for several centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews
Christian missionaries arrived in Japan with Francis Xavier and the Jesuits in the 1540s and briefly flourished, with over 100,000 converts, including many daimyōs in Kyushu.[1][2][3] It soon met resistance from the highest office holders of Japan. Emperor Ōgimachi issued edicts to ban Catholicism in 1565 and 1568, but to little effect.[4] Beginning in 1587, with imperial regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Jesuit missionaries, Christianity was repressed as a threat to national unity.[5] After the Tokugawa shogunate banned Christianity in 1620 it ceased to exist publicly. Many Catholics went underground, becoming hidden Christians (隠れキリシタン, kakure kirishitan), while others died. Only after the Meiji Restoration was Christianity re-established in Japan.
''Robert Bennet Forbes (September 18, 1804 – November 23, 1889), was an American sea captain, China merchant and ship owner.[1] He was active in ship construction, maritime safety, the opium trade, and charitable activities, including food aid to Ireland, which became known as America's first major disaster relief effort.
Opium ships at Lintin, 1824''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bennet_Forbes
Forbes Family
John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), industrialist
Edward W. Forbes (1873–1969), Director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from 1909 to 1944.
John Forbes Kerry (born 1943), United States Secretary of State (2013–2017), senator from Massachusetts (1985–2013)
Elliot Forbes (1917–2006), conductor and musicologist
Robert Bennet Forbes (1804–1889), sea captain, China merchant, ship owner, writer
William Howell Forbes (1837–1896), businessman
Beatrice Forbes Manz, professor of history at Tufts University