{"id":14767,"date":"2024-03-19T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/womens-history-month-5-notable-female-missionaries\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T10:55:09","slug":"womens-history-month-5-notable-female-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/womens-history-month-5-notable-female-missionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s History Month: 5 notable female missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline\"> By <a class=\"reporter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/by\/michael-gryboski\"> Michael Gryboski<\/a><span class=\"quiet\">, Mainline Church Editor <time datetime=\"Tuesday, March 12, 2024\" itemprop=\"datePublished dateModified\">Tuesday, March 12, 2024<\/time><\/span><a class=\"reporter-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelGryboski\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/twitter-color.svg\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure data-index=\"0\" class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"700\" height=\"467\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/14\/88\/148859_w_700_467.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/14\/88\/148859_w_700_467.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" alt=\"An exhibit featuring Christian missionary Elisabeth Elliot at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">An exhibit featuring Christian missionary Elisabeth Elliot at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.<\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Museum of the Bible<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>March is celebrated in the United States and elsewhere as Women\u2019s History Month, a time to honor women across the ages who made valuable contributions to history.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/womens-history\/womens-history-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traces its origins<\/a> to an event in Santa Rosa, California, in 1978 known as \u201cWomen\u2019s History Week,\u201d which was meant to overlap with International Women\u2019s Day, observed annually on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout Christian history, women have played important roles in advancing the Gospel, even if they lacked official institutional authority.<\/p>\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-mar24 design\" id=\"inline-mar24\" action=\"\/newsletter\/inline-mar24.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/newsletter\/photo-newsletter.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"txt\">\n<h2 class=\"title\">Get Our Latest News for FREE<\/h2>\n<p>Subscribe to get daily\/weekly email with the top stories (plus special offers!) from The Christian Post. Be the first to know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>In honor of Women\u2019s History Month, here are five notable female missionaries. They include a former Caribbean slave, a famed Southern Baptist, and a Roman Catholic saint.<\/p>\n<nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Pagination Navigation\"\/>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">Follow Michael Gryboski on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelGryboski?hc_ref=SEARCH&amp;fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Twitter <\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichaelCGryboski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/womens-history-month-five-notable-female-missionaries.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Tuesday, March 12, 2024 An exhibit featuring Christian missionary Elisabeth Elliot at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. | Museum of the Bible March is celebrated in the United States and elsewhere as Women\u2019s History Month, a time to honor women across the ages who made valuable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}