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missionary

[mish-uh-ner-ee] / ˈmɪʃ əˌnɛr i /


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But Pope Leo's close ties to the world's most Catholic continent, cultivated over long years as a missionary and then archbishop in Peru, helped smooth the transition, she said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

The Orthodox have missed Rome’s ability to coordinate, its missionary zeal, its indefatigability in serving the needy, and its intellectual heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Related: My grandpa retired happily at 70 with $750K after working as a missionary.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Then an American missionary, played by Scottish actor Douglas Henshall, arrives.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

And now she was being told that her husband was not in the institution where the Homeland Security people and the missionary had seen him.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

US Protestant missionaries encouraged Sagada's residents to bury their dead and light candles on their graves, he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

As settlers — first Spanish missionaries and later Californians — spread out more and more, the tribe was rendered landless by 1900.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Rio and cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz shot Angh on 16mm film, drawing on photographs and footage of missionaries and Naga communities from the 1950s and 60s.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Waves of European missionaries sailed through the South Pacific in the 19th century, bringing evangelical Christian teachings that were adopted with enthusiasm.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

The missionaries built and ran schools when the government was unwilling or unable to do so.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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