missionaries

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Family vloggers have more reach on TikTok and Instagram than missionaries will ever get knocking on doors or handing out pamphlets on street corners.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

For generations, the Hadzabe, also known as the Hadza, have kept their distance from modern agriculture, guns, missionaries, poachers and encroaching pastoralists.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

These young female missionaries, dressed in white, have been sent into Canada to draw girls to Gilead’s cause.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The Institute says it has graduated more than 40,000 missionaries since its founding in 1970.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Many other previously uncontacted groups of New Guineans and Amazonian Indians have similarly owed to missionaries their incorporation into modern society.

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