Cyprus
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Cyprus is a large island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It was the home of Barnabas and an early destination for Christian missionaries. Paul and Barnabas began their first missionary journey here. The proconsul Sergius Paulus became a believer when Paul blinded the sorcerer Elymas.
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First Missionary Destination
Cyprus was the first organized missionary destination of the early church, representing the gospel's expansion beyond Jewish communities to the wider Roman world.