20th Century
The following table shows the state of the missions at the turn of the 20th century:
Read more about this topic: Paris Foreign Missions Society Famous quotes containing the word century:“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.” |