the Pope is in Africa and huge crowds are greeting him.
No, not a white European but a South American Pope visiting Christians who have suffered war, famine, and religious persecution.
Missionaries, who in the past were revered, are now usually condemned because of the anti Christian culture of the media. Spreading white culture: Except when it isn't. Dour bigoted snobs, except when they aren't. And don't get me started on the Poisonwood Bible, which the author admits was not inspired by what she saw when she was a child there, but by Marxist polemicist books.
But what is ignored is that your local missionary might not be who you think: In the past we had Irish priests in the US, but now they might be from Nigeria or Colombia or VietNam or Poland.
My African friend who taught me the local language went to Mozambique to teach theology and English after the communists there threw out all the educated Portuguese and foreign missionaries from Europe.
And Koreans and Filipinos can also be found among their ranks: not just as official missionaries, but as OFW working in other countries while doing outreach to other workers or locals even in Muslim countries.
So KBS program my neighbor Charles (that covers the lives of foreigners living there) has a program covering the work of twin Catholic priests from India.
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