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...dropped to 4½% last year, with most of the remaining missionaries in Formosa and Hong Kong. In the same 14-year period, the percentage of U.S. missionaries assigned to Latin America and the West Indies rose from 16% to 27%, the percentage assigned to Africa (south of the Sahara) from...
...Sahara Parish. Still restless, he dropped in on an abbé of his acquaintance for advice. "Kneel and confess!" thundered the abbé. To his own surprise, Foucauld did. "As soon as I believed that there was a God," he wrote to a friend, "I realized that I could not do otherwise than live for Him." At the age of 31, he entered the Trappist order...
...desert and the sense of a religious and patriotic mission-"to give ands to France and souls to God"-proved too strong. He was ordained, and went to minister to the Tuareg, 900 miles south of Algiers. His parish covered 1,500,000 square miles of the Sahara. His parish house was a small mud hut in Tamanrasset, 400 miles from the nearest French outpost. His daily meal was a miserable date-and-barley stew. Within a year he translated the Gospels into Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg, writing with an ink made from charcoal and camel urine...
...years in the Sahara he made only one convert, a blind, illiterate old woman. Ever the good Frenchman, he also filed copious military intelligence reports, and briefed French officials on Moroccan affairs and native sentiments...
...Medica as indoor triple-distance winners in a single A.A.U. meet. McLane figures that this is his farewell to swimming, and after ten years of competition he is not really unhappy about it: "In fact, it wouldn't break my heart if the Army stuck me in the Sahara Desert...