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> I can't even begin to wrap my mind around you asking if they had the right to be there. There's a pretty long and often controversial history around European
by _delirium 12y ago
> I can't even begin to wrap my mind around you asking if they had the right to be there.
There's a pretty long and often controversial history around European & American missionaries in Africa (both purely religious missionaries and hybrid humanitarian/religious missionaries), so I can see the question coming up. However I believe in this case it was a sanctioned trip complying with local law and overseen by international medical organizations.
- epochwolf 12y agoSamaritan's Purse was mentioned in the article. I did some volunteer construction work with them in Mississippi a year after Hurricane Katrina. We did mention we were a religious group when people asked but we didn't spend time proselytizing. We were there to help people regardless of their religious beliefs. Nothing was asked in return for our service.