missionaries
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The parrots, lore tells us, brought by missionaries, stayed even after the city became what it is now.
From Salon • May 9, 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
That historic exodus helped turn South Korea into a stronghold of the Christian faith and one of the world’s biggest exporters of missionaries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
He says he comes from the order of the White Fathers, missionaries to the nomadic Bedouin tribes and chaplains to the French Foreign Legion.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
