Missionaries

She became Mother Teresa years later when she founded the Missionaries of Charity.

She led a group of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity.

Three missionaries were killed and eaten by cannibals.

From 1859, Protestant missionaries from America started to arrive, and the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches also became actively involved in missionary work.

The missionaries civilized the natives.

Christianity is a powerful force. That, for example, protestant missionaries come back home from Asia unconverted - that is a great accomplishment.

Tom's parents were missionaries in Africa.

After Tom and Mary read a few verses from their religious text, they remained noncommittal, but when Tom happened to mention that he had learned a lot from his grandparents about their early life, the missionaries could scarcely contain their excitement.

By now resigned to the knowledge that neither Tom nor Mary were likely prospects for religious conversion, the missionaries they'd invited in encouraged Tom to visit a local family history centre or to make use of the Internet to research his ancestors.

The two young men were quite engaging and friendly; they had been sent out by their church as missionaries.