missionary

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My grandpa retired at 70 after working as a missionary for most of his life and later at a national laboratory.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

He was a ghoulish host of a late-night television horror program in the 2005 vampire movie “The Roost,” then played a wagon-train missionary in the 2007 western “Seraphim Falls.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Born Robert Francis Prevost in the midwestern US city of Chicago, the pope worked for more than two decades as a missionary in Peru and obtained Peruvian citizenship in 2015.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Some are missionary groups such as United Bible Societies, whose primary activity globally is translating and distributing bibles, and Samaritan’s Purse, a U.S.-based evangelical group that provides medical care and other emergency services.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Sometimes Ifemelu imagined him in a classroom in the fifties, an overzealous colonial subject wearing an ill-fitting school uniform of cheap cotton, jostling to impress his missionary teachers.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie