missionaries

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The parrots, lore tells us, brought by missionaries, stayed even after the city became what it is now.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Old Town, my slightly disheveled neighborhood of churches, Mexican-adjacent tchotchke shops, is where missionaries established their first mission, colonizing the town that belonged to the country south of the US border.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

When colonialists and missionaries began arriving in the late 19th Century, some Zambian communities, having never seen a white person before, believed they were "Luchele" and treated them like Gods.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Published in 1978 as the third novel in Butler’s “Patternist” series, “Survivor” follows Alanna, a biracial orphan who is adopted by religious missionaries fleeing a plague-ravaged Earth in search of a new home.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

In the early 1800s, European traders, missionaries, and whalers began to visit New Zealand, which had been occupied 600 years previously by Polynesian farmers and fishermen known as Maoris.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond