In 1959 the France branch asked Adam Lisiak, a French pioneer and retired coal miner of Polish descent serving in Madagascar, to visit Réunion. Adam spent the entire month of December 1959 on the island. He wrote: “Ninety percent of the population are ardent Catholics, but many would like to know more about God’s Word and the new world. The priests are trying to stop the spread of the truth. Someone told an Awake! subscriber that the local priest wanted to borrow our book ‘Let God Be True.’ ‘If he comes in person, he can borrow it,’ said the subscriber. The priest never came.”

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Adam Lisiak preached in Réunion for a month, 1959