missionaries
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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
The parrots, lore tells us, brought by missionaries, stayed even after the city became what it is now.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
Once a destination for Western missionaries, the continent increasingly exports priests to parishes in Europe and North America, where the number of priests is declining.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 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
That’s why the Dinka lived in isolation until the nineteenth century, when British explorers and missionaries began pushing through the swamp.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
