The Jewish Week 03-31-2000 Missionary Deception We've been duped by a Christian missionary group, and we are embarrassed and angered by the deception. Along with dozens of other Jewish newspapers around the country, we published an ad in last week's issue...

SOME OF THE "Missionaries" are coming to Washington. For years the National Postal Museum has coveted the rare Hawaiian stamps known as missionaries. Printed on thin tissue paper, they were the first stamps used on mail from the islands. They got their name...

China has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year's Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday.The government launched "a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians" in February dubbed Typhoon No. 5, said...

A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.The shooting happened at about...

In the following essay, Hall describes the manner in which British missionary rhetoric, sympathetic to black converts, revealed anxiety about English national identity.

In the following excerpt, Peterson compares Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to the nonfiction missionary writings of nineteenth-century women. Peterson suggests that Brontë's allusion to the missionary memoir raises broader questions about the life, education, and career path deemed proper for women.

In the following excerpt, Christophers argues that the work of missionaries often came into conflict with the work of secular imperialism. Tracing the scriptural origins of evangelism, Christophers distinguishes the universalist rhetoric of Christianity from the nationalist tendencies of a specifically national religion such as Anglicanism.