The Aporia
10 articles about 10 events for “American Missionary Freed”.
“Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta and who served as a senior adviser in the Biden administration, has been joined by New Birth Missionary Baptist Church’s senior pastor Jamal Bryant at several campaign rallies in the lead-up to Election Day.”
“In an interview with the US broadcaster in late July, Leo expressed “great love” for his home country and its core principles of freedom, opportunity and welcoming immigrants but qualified that he just “happens to be American”.”
“He is the chairman of the deacon board of the Macedonian Missionary Baptist Church in Hutchinson, he said, a majority-African-American congregation, but with some white and Hispanic members as well.”
“An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in October has been released, his organisation has said.”
“His rhetoric and actions raise legitimate questions about whether the department is strengthening religious freedom for everyone or elevating a particular interpretation of Christianity within the chain of command.”
“…atedafricans.org, developed with Kartikay Chadha, documents how, after abolition, more than 700,000 Africans “liberated” from enslavers were forced into indentures of up to 14 years “to pay for the cost of their own freedom” by governments including…”
“Teachers at American Missionary Association schools for Freedmen in Alabama were required to fill out a monthly report with questions about conversion: how many Bibles were distributed?”
“Acting, he told "Sunday Morning" in 2025, gave him "the freedom of being somebody else, and I think that I was (like everybody else) drawn to the idea of fame probably, although I came to kind of rather despise it."”
“For Greer, a fluent French speaker who once served as a Mormon missionary in Belgium, France and Luxembourg, the charge was too much.”
“There was just one important restriction, put in place by the American missionary board: absolutely no meddling in the politics of the natives5.”