missionaries

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Family vloggers have more reach on TikTok and Instagram than missionaries will ever get knocking on doors or handing out pamphlets on street corners.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

Old Town, my slightly disheveled neighborhood of churches, Mexican-adjacent tchotchke shops, is where missionaries established their first mission, colonizing the town that belonged to the country south of the US border.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

For generations, the Hadzabe, also known as the Hadza, have kept their distance from modern agriculture, guns, missionaries, poachers and encroaching pastoralists.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

When colonialists and missionaries began arriving in the late 19th Century, some Zambian communities, having never seen a white person before, believed they were "Luchele" and treated them like Gods.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Obiora looked up at him and intoned, “From darkest Africa now come missionaries who will reconvert the West.”

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie