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The Woman's Union Missionary Society of New York (WUMS) made significant historical contributions to India by initiating missions in Calcutta as a zenana mission. WUMS was founded to provide a way for single women to be sent to Asia to address the physical, educational, and spiritual needs of the women there.
The Trend of the Races: a Home-Mission Study Book, George E. Haynes (Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, New York, 1922) In the Vanguard of a Race, L. H. Hammond (Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, New York, 1922)
The White Rose Mission (also known as the White Rose Home for Colored Working Girls and the White Rose Industrial Association) was created on February 11, 1897, as a "Christian, nonsectarian Home for Colored Girls and Women" by African American civic leaders Victoria Earle Matthews (1861–1907) and Maritcha Remond Lyons (1848–1929).
The Maryknoll Sisters was founded in 1912 for women who wanted to enter religious life and maintain the Maryknoll Missioner's charism. [6] The Maryknoll Lay Missioners, often shortened to MKLM, began as a collaborative ministry between the Fathers and Brothers and the Sisters in 1974. MKLM became its own organization within the Maryknoll family ...
The Encyclopaedia of missions. Descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. With a full assortment of maps, a complete bibliography, and lists of Bible version, missionary societies, mission stations, and a general index online vol 1 1891, 724pp; online vol 2 1891, 726pp; Conroy-Krutz, Emily.
The early missionaries concentrated in East Asia, particularly China (1921) [5] and Korea (1922). World War II interrupted their work. Many Sisters were detained and deported, and two lost their lives. However, numerous South American countries were added as mission sites. Maryknoll Sisters also responded to the needs of refugees in Central ...
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Sisters belonging to Missionaries of Charity in their attire of traditional white sari with blue border.. The Missionaries of Charity (Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women [3] established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.