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Grace Stott born Grace Cigie (12 March 1845 – 24 January 1922) was a British Protestant missionary in China. She went to China after a marriage proposal arrived in the post. She worked in Wenzhou where she created a school for girls. Her husband George Stott died in 1899. She then returned to China.
In Haiti, Grace exacerbated effects from an earthquake three days prior to the passage of the storm. Streets were flooded and power outages were reported in Jamaica. In Mexico, the storm caused landslides and destroyed buildings. In total, Grace killed 16 people: 4 in Haiti and 12 in Mexico.
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Haiti, following the end of the Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue which declared its independence from France on 1 January 1804 and became the world's first and oldest black-led republic in the Americas, the first Caribbean state and the first Latin American country as a whole in the Western Hemisphere after the United States ...
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The Board of Missions began financially supporting the mission in 1865. Holly also served as consul for Liberia at Port-au-Prince from 1864 until 1874. In that year Holly both received a D.D. from Howard University , Washington, D.C., and was consecrated as missionary bishop of Haiti by the American Church Missionary Society, an Evangelical ...
Grace H. Knapp (21 November 1870 – 14 March 1953) was an American Christian missionary and teacher who served in the Ottoman Empire. During her time as a missionary, Knapp was a witness to the Armenian genocide .
Grace Dyer Taylor (31 July 1859 – 23 August 1867) was the eldest surviving daughter of James Hudson Taylor and Maria Jane Dyer, Christian missionaries to China.The event of her death of meningitis at the age of eight near Hangzhou has been cited by mission historians such as Ruth Tucker, Roger Steer, and John Pollock as being a turning point in the history of the China Inland Mission.
On 16 and 22 July 2005, members of the UN mission in Haiti and local police arrested three suspects. According to Reporters Without Borders, the suspects belonged to a gang called the "Rat Army" that operated in the Port-au-Prince district of Bel-Air. [22] Two people were later sentenced to life in prison for the death of Roche.