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Jul 10, 2023 · Amy was not in India long before she saw suttee, the practice of burning a widow alive as a sign of loyalty to her dead husband. [4] India was a place that could be very hostile to Christianity, but Amy was not a woman to back down from a challenge if she believed she was doing the work of God.
Dec 28, 1981 · Hoagy Carmichael, composer of such songs as ''Stardust'' and ''Georgia on My Mind,'' died today at Eisenhower Medical Center. He was 82 years old. The songwriter died at 10:22 A.M. ''as the...
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Amy Carmichael, the oldest of seven children, was born on 16 December 1867 in the coastal village of Millisle in Northern Ireland. Her parents were sincere Christians who taught Amy about the love of God. In 1883, while at a girls’ boarding school in Harrogate in Yorkshire, Amy put her trust in Jesus, during a special mission to explain Christianit...
Local girls who worked in the nearby mills were called shawlies, because of the cheap shawls they wore over their shoulders. They worked in poor conditions, 14 hours a day, for very little money. Amy brought them to church services, but they were not welcomed by everyone. So she decided to purchase a tin building — ‘The Tin Tabernacle’ — for £500, ...
Amy first worked in Japan, then Ceylon, but her main life’s work was to be in Southern India. She didn’t follow the usual missionary way of working, but wore Indian clothes and lived amongst Indian women who had been persecuted after being converted to Christ from Hinduism. They were called ‘The Starry Cluster’. They travelled and shared the good n...
With other Indian women, Amy not only created a large hostel, but also a hospital for children. She prayed to God for all the money and medication that was needed. Amy faced great opposition to all she was doing, but eventually her efforts and tireless labours as a social reformer led to the law in India being changed, to protect children from the ...
A bird bath under a tree in Dohnavur commemorates her. On it is inscribed the simple word ‘Amma’ (meaning ‘Mother’). However, Amy Carmichael’s legacy lives on: the Dohnavur Fellowship continues in India caring for children rescued from situations of danger; and the Welcome Evangelical Church in Cambrai Street, Belfast is thriving. In August 2016, W...
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Former Black Panther Party member and civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael died Sunday in Conakry, Guinea, where he had lived for the past 33 years, a spokesman said....
May 10, 2018 · Amy Carmichael began to sense that God wanted her to tell people in other countries about him. There was one problem though. Amy had an illness that made her so sick she had to stay in bed days at a time. Despite her health, she knew she must obey God.
Amy Beatrice- Wilson Carmichael was an Irish missionary, lovingly known as amma, (mother) to the orphaned, abandoned, and rescued children of the Dohnavur Fellowship, which she founded, in India’s southern tip, in the state of Tamil Nadu in 1901.
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All the workers and children in Amy's ministry wore Indian clothing and had Indian names. A year later, after receiving medical attention, working briefly in China and a brief break at home, Amy set sail for India, where she remained until her death on 18th January 1951.
