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The American Cemetery, Old Cairo, Egypt

May 25, 2020

--by Jean Isteero

Andrew Watson, (1834-1916), an American missionary born in Oliverburn, Perthshire, Scotland, and educated in Waukesha, Wisconsin, wrote in his 1897 book The American Mission In Egypt:

A petition was presented to his Highness Ishmael Pasha begging him to give us a free grant of a piece of...

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Mission History, Egypt

Florence Nightingale and Presbyterian Nursing

May 6, 2020

Left: Florence Nightingale, 1860. Courtesy of Wikicommons. Right: Nurses with child patient, Severance Hospital, Seoul, 1958. [Pearl ID: 145957]

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic focused the world’s attention on the sacrifices nurses and other health care workers make every day, the World Health Organization had...

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Gabriela

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Nursing, Medical missions, Mission History

Medical Benevolence Foundation: to Preach the Kingdom of God and to Heal

April 7, 2020

Luke 9:2 instructs and inspires the work of the Medical Benevolence Foundation: “to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal.” MBF's approach to mission is a science-minded alternative to evangelical efforts that have disregarded public health as a primary concern. (In the mid-19th century, the Whitman party brought measles to the Cayuse people. Today, Ethnos360...

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David S

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Mission History, Korea

The Things She Saved: Images and Objects in Missionary Women's Archives

October 25, 2019

--by Deanna Ferree Womack

Church archives can be treasure troves for research on missions and Christianity around the globe. I found this to be true when working on my first book, Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria.

Missionary Treasure Troves

The “treasures” that I sought when researching Protestantism in...

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Scholar Research, Mission History, Womens History, Nursing

Snapshot from Paraguay

October 1, 2019

"Their leaders and members are surrounded by a menacing atmosphere of strict surveillance, tapping of telephone calls, telex services and correspondence in general."

So concluded an ecumenical delegation to Paraguay in 1988, describing the suffocation of civil society under the 34-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. Within the year, Stroessner would be deposed in a coup and forced into exile in Brazil. The groups which brought the ecumenical delegation in -- the Comité de Iglesias para Ayudas de Emergencia (CIPAE), and the...

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David S

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Mission History, Latin America, Paraguay

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The American Cemetery, Old Cairo, Egypt

Florence Nightingale and Presbyterian Nursing

Medical Benevolence Foundation: to Preach the Kingdom of God and to Heal

The Things She Saved: Images and Objects in Missionary Women's Archives

Snapshot from Paraguay