missionaries
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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
That a major publisher should in 2026 release a book on Protestant missionaries that isn’t about the injustices of colonialism may come as a surprise.
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
He’d made us stay here, when everybody from Nelson to the King of Belgium was saying white missionaries ought to go home.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
