missionary
传教士,宣教士,传道士,传道者
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plural mis·sion·ar·ies.Also mis·sion·er for 1-3 .
- : a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work: There are opportunities for student missionaries living abroad to work with the poor, participate in building projects, and share the Gospel.
- : a person strongly in favor of a program, set of principles, etc., who attempts to persuade or convert others.
- : a person who is sent on a mission.
- : missionary position.
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- : pertaining to or connected with religious missions.
- : engaged in such a mission or devoted to work connected with missions.
- : reflecting or prompted by the desire to persuade or convert others: the missionary efforts of political fanatics.
- : characteristic of a missionary: missionary zeal.
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Both in 2018 and 2019, I myself was evacuated from Haiti by United Nations security after violent protests broke out and made getting any missionary work done impossible.
To be frank, it wasn’t the missionaries who built the Alamo.
At the time, Jurado says, the Philippines had few medical hospitals and clinics, primarily set up by the Spanish colonial government and missionaries.
Founded in 1892 by American missionaries and educators, it’s now a vibrant center for cultural and educational exchange between Spain and the US.
Evangelical missionaries, though, are reportedly telling tribes not to take the vaccine because “they will turn into an alligator.”
Jesuits are educators known as the intellectuals of the church; they also have a long missionary tradition.
Outside, they killed Hector McMillan, a Canadian missionary, before joining the ranks of the fleeing rebels.
Heavily armed Simbas had already arrived at the missionary house and were lining up families in the backyard for execution.
The hospital also treated a second missionary who died in early August, and this nurse also had come in contact with him.
Bagaza called for the expulsion of all Italian priests and missionary workers, but those who stayed received death threats.
His zeal led him among foreigners as a missionary; after visiting Bohemia, he went among the Poles, by whom he was killed.
Are you quite sure,” asked the pointedly, “that you are supplied with everything else that you require?