missions

Describes the missions built in America by the Spanish and examines their political, military, and religious significance.

Describes Spain's efforts to colonize and spread Christianity in the New World in the eighteenth century by building twenty-one missions along the coastal areas of what is now the state of California.

A biography of the nun whose tireless work in the slums of Calcutta has made her a living saint.

The interracial friendship between Blessing and Evan, two boys growing up in a Methodist mission in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s, is put to the test when a local white farmer is murdered by a group of African independence fighters, and officials at Evan's all-white school begin training the students to take up arms against the Africans.

Traces the life of the humanitarian who gave up a comfortable academic existence to become a missionary doctor in the jungles of Gabon.

A biography of the founder of the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity, known for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta and other places and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.