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The United Mission in Iraq

May 16, 2018

We've recently processed and put into the hands of researchers RG 509, records of the United Mission in Iraq.

Though individual Protestant missionaries evangelized in Mosul and Kirkuk in the nineteenth century, coordinated American mission work flourished within the postwar British sphere of influence. In 1924 the Presbyterian...

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