missionary
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The Traitors star was 23 years old and travelling the world onboard a Christian evangelical missionary ship when he came out to his fellow church members.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
On the side of missionary success, Mr. Ryrie suggests that the best approach lay in going native.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
One US citizen, a medical missionary working in the DRC, has contracted Ebola so far.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
The patient, medical missionary Peter Stafford, is responding well to treatment, the Charite Hospital in Berlin said Wednesday.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
The son of a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, Luthuli was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia and educated in Natal.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
A new San Gabriel mission was being built, five years after Franciscan missionaries had founded the original mission in a flood zone, which flooded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Of all the ways Protestants tried to attract converts, one of the most effective was embedding missionaries in indigenous communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
There have been many devastating school fires in Kenya, where boarding schools are common as a colonial legacy of missionaries and the British.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
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
“The white missionaries brought us their god,” Amaka was saying.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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