Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vive Ghana!", the crowd surged down Prince Baudouin Avenue, was soon joined by thousands of spectators who were just then emerging from the football stadium. The swollen mob swept through the city, upset and burned cars, stoned and mauled Europeans, pillaged shops. Bands looted public buildings and invaded mission schools, concentrating their fury on Roman Catholic more than on Protestant schools (though Kasavubu, mission-educated, studied philosophy for three years as a Catholic seminarist). Under orders from their Belgian officers, African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned key points about the European part of the city...
...Brussels a hushed special session of Parliament quickly voted to send an investigatory mission. The new Minister of the Congo, Maurice van Hemelrijck, a longtime critic of Belgian complacency and the author of a long-awaited proposal for the Congo's gradual emancipation that is to be presented to Parliament this week, gave his countrymen a brief but pointed lecture. "We have been on the border of catastrophe," he said. "We are not without fault. We could not wait so long without punishment before letting the Congolese know of our intentions...
...indirection attack it. Peking's press and radio denounced him as a "running dog of imperialism," and headlined the claim: DRUNKENNESS IN YUGOSLAVIA RANKS SECOND IN WORLD. After Tito had left Bali, the Red-lining Indonesian newspaper Bintang Timur accused him of "carrying out a Western mission...
First among the North American Protestant mission countries is now India, with 1,883 from the U.S. and Canada; next comes Japan, with 1,549. The Near and Middle East can claim only 2.96% of the total missionary force. Protestant women missionaries now outnumber the men by three...
State Department authorities attach so much importance to the way in which Soviet leaders deal with the Mikoyan mission that they expect to delay sending a new note to the Soviets about an East-West conference until after they get reports on what happens at the party congress...