Steve Saint, left, speaks to Ecuadorean tribesman Mincaye in New York on Jan. 13. Mincaye, a member of the Waodani tribe, participated in the murders 50 years ago of five missionaries including ...

End of the Spear, the story about the martyrdom of five missionaries in Ecuador 50 years ago and its long-term repercussions, which scored the country’s eighth-highest box office gross at cinemas ...

NEW YORK — Far from home, five American missionaries died in brutal fashion: speared and hacked to death by tribesman in the dense jungles of Ecuador. That nightmare moment 50 years ago this month ...

Steve Saint is a natural storyteller. He uses animated hand gestures and answers questions by trailing off into detailed tangents and funny anecdotes before landing at a logical stopping point. And he ...

‘End of the Spear,” an evangelical tale of missionaries who gave their lives to bring peace and the Bible to the Waodani tribe of Ecuador, has Montana roots. One of the missionaries was Roger ...

Fifty years ago this month, five young missionaries were killed by an Ecuadorian tribe known to the world as the Auca Indians. Auca means savage. The tribe called itself, then and now, the Waodani.

End of the Spear (Fox Home Entertainment: DVD $29.99; rated PG-13; available Tuesday) This film spotlights Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from Ecuador, and the events following the tribe's massacre of ...