missionary:
(plural: ‘missionaries‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘ssion’ are said with a ‘shan’ sound — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here for British pronunciation, please click here for American pronunciation)
a white medical missionary in Africa
a person who is sent to another place, usually a distant place like a foreign country or a remote place, on a special job, usually teaching them about a programme or a set of principles;
a person on a mission;
a religious person who is sent to other places to teach the people of that place, mostly about a religion and convert those people into one’s own religion, especially the Christian nuns and monks,
two Christian missionaries with locals
Jean volunteered to be a medical missionary for a WHO vaccination programme to go to Mali in Africa.
What we need in the present world is not a bunch of hypocrites who talk of peace but given to violence but a group of courageous missionaries who can stand against violence to bring in peace!
Though their prime purpose was to preach Christianity to the rest of the world, the Christian missionaries gave their unparalleled services in education and health care to a number of under-developed nations in Africa, Asia and South America.
