The university was born when Severance Medical College merged with an adjoining missionary school in 1957.

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On September 13th protesters set fire to a Christian missionary school and 18 people were killed, most of them by police bullets.

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Her father, Cao Qifeng, studied English at a missionary school before becoming an impassioned underground Communist and taking a mid-level post in a trade union.

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The boy who grew up herding cattle in the hills of the rural Transkei area and attended a Methodist missionary school where he was given the name "Nelson" has dedicated his adult life to opposing the racist and segregationist policy of apartheid.

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There have even been kidnappings of school children, a missionary and a journalist.

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He said he had first experienced "something impinging on his consciousness" as part of a Christian Missionary Society (CMS) scheme to Kenya during his gap year between school and university when he was not a practising Christian.

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