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Katie Davis Majors is an American missionary and author who established a mission in Jinja, Uganda in 2007. [2] Her work led to the founding of a school and provision of other services in Jinja, which now operate under the auspices of the Tennessee-based not-for-profit, Amazima Ministries International (AMI).
Glenmary priests, brothers, and co-workers are Catholic missionaries who serve Catholic missions and ministries in 11 different dioceses in the United States. Glenmary serves the spiritual and material needs of the Catholic minority, the unchurched, and the poor by establishing the Catholic Church in small-town and rural America. [1]
David O. McKay eventually removed Moyle from his responsibilities over the missionary program but many of the changes introduced during this time remain even today. [citation needed] During the 1960s, missionaries whose area of service required them to learn a new language were first sent to the Language Training Mission on the BYU campus.
Catholic missionaries were some of the first Europeans to reach many parts of French North America and British North America in the east, and Spanish North America in the Southwestern United States. Several American Catholics have been considered for sainthood over the past 50 years. Catholics continue to contribute to American religious life.
Roman Catholic missionaries in North America (7 C, 1 P) + Christian missionaries in Greenland (1 C) B. Christian missionaries in Bermuda (1 C) C.
Several missions were also established in the interior northwards, e.g., that of Agra and Lahore in 1570 and that of Tibet in 1624. Still, even with these efforts, the greater part even of the coast line was by no means fully worked, and many vast tracts of the interior northwards were practically untouched. [citation needed]
In the years before radio, movies, TV, or rapid communications, such missionary reports became primary sources for many Americans of information about foreign lands. The ABCFM founded schools and hospitals in all the mission fields. Increasingly, its missionaries trained native leaders to continue the work of the ministry.
The Encyclopaedia of missions. Descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. With a full assortment of maps, a complete bibliography, and lists of Bible version, missionary societies, mission stations, and a general index online vol 1 1891, 724pp; online vol 2 1891, 726pp; Conroy-Krutz, Emily.