missionary
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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
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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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