missionaries

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Stafford is one of three medical missionaries with Serge — a nonprofit based in Jenkintown, Penn. — who were exposed to the virus.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

With the arrival of European traders and missionaries, Christianity spread rapidly through Apam.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Published in 1978 as the third novel in Butler’s “Patternist” series, “Survivor” follows Alanna, a biracial orphan who is adopted by religious missionaries fleeing a plague-ravaged Earth in search of a new home.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Once a destination for Western missionaries, the continent increasingly exports priests to parishes in Europe and North America, where the number of priests is declining.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

That’s why the Dinka lived in isolation until the nineteenth century, when British explorers and missionaries began pushing through the swamp.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau