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Cynthia Farrar (April 20, 1795, Marlborough, New Hampshire – January 25, 1862, Ahmednagar, India) was a Christian missionary from the United States of America. She was a teacher and founded girls' schools in Bombay and Ahmednagar. She was one of the first single American women recruited as a missionary to work and live abroad.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Christian missionaries. It includes Christian missionaries that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
Women are engaged in a variety of vocations, from contemplative prayer, to teaching, providing health care and working as missionaries. In 2006, the number of nuns worldwide had been in decline, but women still constituted around 753,400 members of the consecrated life, of a total worldwide membership of around 945,210. Of these members ...
Ida Sophia Scudder (December 9, 1870 – May 24, 1960) was a third-generation American medical missionary in India. She sought to improve the plight of Indian women by fighting against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy. [1] [2] In 1918, she started a teaching hospital, the Christian Medical College & Hospital, in Vellore, India. [3]
It includes Roman Catholic missionaries that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female Roman Catholic missionaries" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.
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.
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Catherine Elisabeth Mulgrave also Gewe (19 November 1827 – 14 January 1891) was an Angolan-born Jamaican Moravian pioneer educator, administrator and missionary who accompanied a group of 24 Caribbean mission recruits from Jamaica and Antigua and arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu, Accra in Ghana in 1843.