Born on November 15 1931, Kibaki was baptised Emilio Stanley by Italian missionaries, a name for which he seemingly has little taste, rarely using it.

Italian missionaries had already established a foothold at Massawa in the 1830s and had entered deep into Ethiopia.

In January 1942, the Japanese army invaded Burma and late April they freed the Italian missionaries held in Kalaw.

Italian missionaries had already established a foothold at Massawa (in present day Eritrea) in the 1830s and had entered deep into the Ethiopian Empire.

The dislike of the Italian missionaries to those of France was extreme.

Spanish and Italian missionaries carried the new models to spectacle wearers in China.

There he met Ladislav Lenček, a lazarist who proposed him to go to China and help Italian missionaries as a physician.

Jubani criticized the Italian missionaries for teaching only in Italian, while in previous years Albanian had been used too.

Italian missionaries began to provide boy-only education to British and Chinese youth in 1843.

Educated by Italian Catholic missionaries, she developed a love for opera early in life.