Word: mission
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advocate of recognition of Red China, decided to go to Red Peking. When the State Department repeatedly refused to validate his passport. Porter sued Secretary of State Christian Herter, charging violation of congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month, he proclaimed that Nationalist China's President "Chiang Kai-shek...
...would create economic chaos in a nation where two-thirds of the population remain farmers. Unless it is accompanied by a general increase in national prosperity, an increase in agricultural production is a delusion-as the U.S. has learned in Greece, where the work of a U.S. agricultural advisory mission has presented the country with an unsalable surplus of wheat, rice and tobacco. If the gap is not to widen, if undernourished peoples are ever to achieve Western standards, there must be a process of economic development inside the poorer countries so that increased industrialization will create a market...
...Founded by Antonio Maria Claret in Spain in 1849, and now active in mission work primarily among Spanish-speaking people in the U.S., Southwest and Latin America...
...known throughout Africa as "the black Billy Graham." In fact, Bhengu's manner and technique are unlike Graham's; he uses no publicity or promotion to advertise his campaigns, and his only assistance is a ten-member choir of amateurs supplied by the churches of his mission. His platform presence is almost subdued. But whether he is talking to black audiences or white, Bhengu weaves a spell no less effective than Billy...
...Spirit of God. Evangelist Bhengu is the grandson of a Zulu chief. His father became an evangelist at the Lutheran Mission station at Eshowe, Zululand, and young Nicholas went to school there, then to the Roman Catholic Institute at Eshowe for his secondary education, finally to a missionary school near Kimberley, where he also took an evening course that proved to be inspired by Communism. For a while Bhengu was attracted to Marxism, but by the time he was 20 he had returned to Christianity, was ordained in 1936 and became a missionary of the Assemblies of God, a pentecostal...