missionaries
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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
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
Obiora looked up at him and intoned, “From darkest Africa now come missionaries who will reconvert the West.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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