as in missionaries
a person who is sent especially to a foreign country to do religious work (such as converting people to the religion or ministering to the sick)
The church has a program in which volunteers spend one year abroad as missioners.
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The story of two mismatched missionaries spreading the gospel won nine Tony Awards in 2011, including for best musical.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
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Muslim traders and missionaries began traveling to Hausa lands in the twelfth century, and much of the society gradually converted to Islam.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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Most of all, reason was no replacement for the religion—Roman Catholicism—that the Revolution had downgraded and in many cases tried to eliminate through the mass murder of priests and the destruction of churches.—
Paul Kingsnorth,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Reconstructed for the first time by Shenkar and his team, the fragments show four priests, and possibly a small child, approaching a stationary fire altar.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
17 Sep. 2025
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