Thank you for your post. There have been missionaries in my family. Maybe some missionaries go where pragmatism counsels otherwise. But I don’t know the full story. The responses here that blame the innocent martyrs and their parents are really bitter and small. Now is the time to offer prayer and condolences.
I recall that a group of missionaries were killed by the natives in one of the South American countries. It must’ve seemed like a lost cause, but his widow, the sister of one of the other victims and other missionaries went back to the same group of people and continued spreading the Gospel. 20-40% of the Huaroni people are apparently Christian because of both the Protestant and Catholic missionaries that didn’t let fear of death prevent them from sharing Jesus with one of the more violent native groups in that area. The widow even took her 3 year-old daughter. I suspect many people disapproved of that.