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missionary

[mish-uh-ner-ee] / ˈmɪʃ əˌnɛr i /


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Charleson was 40 at the time, known for playing Scottish Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in “Chariots of Fire.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

For a couple of years, Trinidad juggled barber college, work at FedEx and missionary work through his L.A. church, Iglesia De Jesucristo.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

An American missionary has been released after spending more than nine months in captivity, the international Christian organisation he worked for has said.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Even selling the book could prove dangerous in the South: Authorities in North Carolina jailed one missionary for distributing four copies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

All in preparation for the work they feel they were born for, missionary work in Africa.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

Tassone said Ross had visited other friends in Norway and Denmark, and had supported missionaries financially.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

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

Nothing better overcame those barriers “than indigenous people serving as missionaries themselves.”

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

Esther Anderson, one of the missionaries who ran the school, was from California.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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