Sentence examples for foreign mission from inspiring English sources

Under international law, host countries are obliged to protect foreign mission staff and property.

Fidel Castro has accused him of deliberately sending sick people to a foreign mission.

She was determined to work in Hunan, where no foreign mission had yet penetrated.

The Soviet Embassy has the largest staff of any foreign mission in West Beirut.

Anyway, Kim sent Moranbong on what was supposed to be their first foreign mission.

In 1826 the General Convention once again was restricted to foreign mission activities, and in the course of time it became known as the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

In 1913 Peabody became vice president for the foreign department of the newly unified Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (WABFMS), and she was instrumental in transforming the Interdenominational Conference into the more effective Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions in 1916.

In 1922 a New York minister, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 1969), protested the activities of conservatives in foreign-mission fields in a widely reproduced sermon titled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" The conservatives in the denomination forced Fosdick, a Baptist serving the First Presbyterian Church of New York City, out of his pastorate.

The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, as Maryknoll is formally known, has been sending mission workers overseas since 1911, when two priests traveled to China to work with the poor there and then returned to Maryknoll to train others to service.

For the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, as the Maryknoll society is formally known, sending lay missioners and families overseas is a recent phenomenon.

American Baptist Foreign Mission Society records, #4424.