missionaries

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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

The parrots, lore tells us, brought by missionaries, stayed even after the city became what it is now.

From Salon • May 9, 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

These young female missionaries, dressed in white, have been sent into Canada to draw girls to Gilead’s cause.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

In my second year, the missionaries built a dormitory and started a boarding school.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola