Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subimal Mookerjee 1G of India. Mookerjee is a student of economics...
...mihi animas [give me souls]," was the prayer of bearded, stern-faced St. Francis Xavier, greatest missionary of the Roman Catholic Church since Apostolic times. One of the first Jesuits, who helped St. Ignatius Loyola found the order, Francis Xavier journeyed to India .and then to the Far East in his historic quest for converts. On Aug. 15, 1549, the astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds...
...pilgrims had come from all over the world. Aloof, tight-lipped Bishop Giuseppe López Ortiz of Tuy in western Spain headed a delegation of 35 from the saint's own country. There were Germans, French, Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the U.S. delegation was energetic, ruddy Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. The Japanese turned out in crowds that jammed streets, parks and station platforms. Non-Christians sang hymns along with their shinja (believer) brothers. Pious deputations waited at railway stations until late at night to catch...
...largest groups of converts gained over the 23-year period live in South Africa (where a nucleus of 714,013 grew to 5,467,281) and India-Pakistan (from 580,212 to 4,100,224). In heavily Roman Catholic Latin America, the heaviest gains showed in Brazil (69,527 to 1,657,524), Argentina (3,350 to 259,056) and Mexico (31,138 to 265,148). In the Far East, Manchuria's Protestants increased from 245 to 54,938, Korea's from 201,063 to 743,773, and China's from...
Nowhere had theaters sprung up in such large numbers as in India and Pakistan, which had increased their picture houses 43.3%. Italy and Germany spawned the largest increases in Europe, where Soviet Russia still boasted the biggest total of movie theaters (12,614). Japan led in the Far East...