The changing role of our Irish Missionaries in Africa. Report shows Bishop Thomas McGettrick with parishioners in Nigeria. Children sitting on ground receiving religious instruction. Saint Patrick ...
Elsewhere African missionaries were appointed by the Presbyterian Church in Cameroun in 1896. Many people went to study in America and came back to preach the word of God. Often, like John ...
to pitch the Ealinton Tournament tent in Central Africa, at the confluence of the Niger and the Tchadda, with the object of there founding a depot of religious and agricultural knowledge ...
The success of Christian missionary programmes can be linked to the education they offered. Many people in Africa wanted education; and missionaries taught people to read, in order that they might ...