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missionary

[mish-uh-ner-ee] / ˈmɪʃ əˌnɛr i /


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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

Its missionary arm ran slave-farmed plantations in the Caribbean to fund the spread of Anglicanism, individual members of clergy were slave owners, and the Church received large donations from slave traders.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

St. Patrick offered evocative details of slaving and missionary work in the lands around the Irish Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The Traitors star was 23 years old and travelling the world onboard a Christian evangelical missionary ship when he came out to his fellow church members.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Out of the magazines I read came a passionate call for the experiences of the disinherited, and there were none of the lame lispings of the missionary in it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

Even if English Protestants were late compared to the Spanish and Portuguese Catholic missionaries, Mr. Ryrie shows that John Calvin, John Knox and other reformers were laying the groundwork for the birth of global Christianity.

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

He’d made us stay here, when everybody from Nelson to the King of Belgium was saying white missionaries ought to go home.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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