The end of the Second World War coincided with a period of growing consolidation of the dynamics of decolonization in Africa. Thus, by the early 1960s, most European colonial powers had been forced to relinquish colonial control, but Portugal remained as a diehard colonial regime, willing to neutralize or discredit any player it perceived as sympathetic the decolonization. Foreign missionaries, both Protestant and Catholics, became one of the primary targets of the Portuguese colonial regime. In my presentation, I propose discuss to the intricated relationship between the missionary activities of foreign missionaries in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique and the narratives of colonial violence, from the outbreak of the Portuguese colonial war, in March 1961, to the independence of the Portuguese colonies in Africa, in 1974/75. My discussion will be based on primary archival records available in Portugal, Spain, Italy and in the United States.