missionary

Example Sentences

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The Chicago-born clergyman, who spent nearly 20 years as a missionary in Peru and eventually obtained citizenship, took the name Leo XIV.

From Barron's

Francis last year upped the Mongolian church’s standing when he made a cardinal out of its leader, the Italian missionary Giorgio Marengo.

From Seattle Times

Mrs. Crook was among the last of a generation of Westerners born to missionaries in China in the decades before the Japanese invasion, World War II and the subsequent Communist revolution.

From New York Times

Many other missionaries were killed and captured while Hin Nie hid in a bunker.

From BBC

"The historic buildings, the church, the missionary building and so forth - all gone," he said.

From BBC