missionary
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Liam and Enda leave by choice—Liam for India as a Jesuit missionary and Enda for America with her fiddle—though leaving is a heartbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 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
An American citizen, believed to be missionary group doctor Peter Stafford, is being evacuated from DR Congo after developing symptoms over the weekend.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
That patient, the first person to be treated by the unit, was American medical missionary Rick Sacra.
From Slate • May 14, 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
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