Missionary deaths in 2001. (Vatican).Rome--In 2001, at least 33 missionaries were killed worldwide, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an incomplete list issued by the Vatican missionary Missionary Aubrey, Father converts savages to Christianity. [Fr. Lit.: Atala] Boniface, St. missionary to the German infidels in 8th century. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 271] Davidson, Rev. agency Fides. The great majority of victims were priests; the others include three nuns, one seminarian sem·i·nar·i·an also sem·i·nar·ist n. A student at a seminary. Noun 1. seminarian - a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) seminarist , one consecrated con·se·crate tr.v. con·se·crat·ed, con·se·crat·ing, con·se·crates 1. To declare or set apart as sacred: consecrate a church. 2. Christianity a. lay woman and one Catholic lay volunteer. Ten died in Asia, ten on the American continent, nine in Africa, two in Oceania, and two in Europe. Fides said the list does not include the sixteen Protestant Christians killed in a Catholic church in Pakistan, the hundreds of dead in Jos and Kano in Nigeria, and those massacred in the Indonesian islands of the Moluccas and Sulawesi. It also does not include priests killed, native to their own countries (Zenit, Jan. 1/02). |
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