Word: orientals
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...Singapore] is as strongly fortified as Gibraltar. . . . It will play a great role when the inevitable clash between the East and the West finally takes place. In anticipation of that event, it maintains a set of barrooms, the splendor of which is famous all over the Orient...
...news of other missionaries in the Orient...
...files of Maryknoll Seminary are filled with such instances of heroism. No religious institution in America has so many of its alumni in the Japanese war zone. More than 450 nuns and priests from Maryknoll are in the Orient. Save for a few sick or on furlough, they have stuck at their posts through the years of mounting tension. Once assigned to a field, Roman Catholic missionaries generally stay there for the rest of their lives...
...only 23 years later, it and its affiliate, the Maryknoll Sisters, number over 1,300 priests, brothers, sisters and candidates, are also training 350 natives in the Orient as priests and nuns...
...missionary districts in South China, Korea, Manchukuo and Japan, Maryknollers are working, converting 7,500 adults a year. Maryknoll is still the largest U.S. Catholic missionary group, but others have followed its lead; there are now 2,500 American Catholic missionaries stationed overseas, a majority of them in the Orient...