Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge. It was Oct. 7, 1952 when 15 priests and five lay brothers arrived from France at an abandoned children's camp at Tioumliline. Their mission: to transform the camp into a monastery, follow the secluded, contemplative life of their order. But the goal soon broadened; the Benedictines sheltered Arab political refugees displaced by the swelling national unrest, and word of the monks' kindness quickly spread. Soon the monks were treating some 200 Berbers a day at their newly built dispensary, sheltering and educating a flock of 20 orphan boys. No attempt at conversion was made. In fact...
...Particular attention is drawn to the Church of Don Basilio [i.e., the Mission of Faith, a small, offbeat, sect], which because of its visionary character has numerous proselytizers in the Holy City. Many converts have been made among gardeners in city parks and porters in railroad terminals...
...been roused by the recent celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, by the meeting of the [Sixth World Buddhist] Council in Rangoon, and also by the deep fear in Asia of [nuclear] war . . . Buddhist leaders are calling Buddhists to support a world mission to save men from Christianity which, they say, has failed to prevent the so-called Christian nations of the West from inflicting on the world two world wars...
...S.R.E.B. has been a major boon to higher education in Dixie. But the man most responsible for its success is its softspoken, diplomatic Director John Eli Ivey Jr. When the governors found him, Sociologist Ivey was only 28-the youngest full professor at the University of North Carolina. His mission with the S.R.E.B.: to fill the gaps in Southern higher education by getting states and campuses to share each other's facilities...
...particular, blows his last buck on the booze, sells his second pair of pants to buy some more, passes out on the sidewalk, wakes up to find his suitcase stolen, takes a day's work as a crate hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides "to get off this Bowery-I'm goin' to Chicago. Gonna make my last stand out there...