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Renee Bach was 19 when she claims to have heard a calling from God telling her to travel to Uganda on a missionary trip to save children from starvation, poverty and deadly diseases. In 2009, she ...
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).
In 1895, Bishop Henry Hanlon from the Mill Hill Mission arrived in Uganda and he was given Nsambya Hill by Kabaka Mwanga. [3] The Mill Hill missionaries spread Christianity in the Tooro region. Bishop Henry Hanlon did not only manage to convert Mugwanya from being a Moslem to being catholic but also made him the head of Catholics in Buganda. [3]
The society is composed of missionary priests and brothers. The members take an oath committing them to labor for the conversion of Africa, in accordance with the constitutions of their society. The missionaries are not, strictly speaking, a religious institute, whether an "order" or "congregation". Instead, they are a society of apostolic life ...
Alexander Murdoch Mackay – Presbyterian missionary to Uganda [1] George Leslie Mackay – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan; James Laidlaw Maxwell – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan; Robert Morrison – first Protestant missionary in China; John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides" (now part of ...
Minnesotan missionary Beau Shroyer was murdered in a crime of passion orchestrated by his own wife, police in Angola claim.. Beau, wife Jackie Shroyer and their five children had been in “the ...
YWAM Missionary Lee Isaac Chung's film Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) earned Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Chung cast two street kids whom he found through YWAM's soccer-outreach program as the stars of a film that dealt with the moral and emotional repercussions of the Rwandan genocide. [82]
With the intent to film a documentary about the War in Darfur, college students Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole traveled to Africa in 2003. [7] Russell had recently graduated from film school at the University of Southern California, and after hearing from locals that gunmen had shot at the truck in front of him while driving in northern Uganda, he learned about Joseph Kony and ...