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Attention has recently been turned to where the Jesuits are at work and what they are doing.* "In the Balkan Peninsula there are forty-five Jesuit missionaries ; in Africa, and especially Egypt, Madagascar, and the Zambesi region, 223 ; in Asia, especially Armenia, Syria, and certain parts of
In China alone the number is 195 all China, 699. In Oceanica, including the of French nationality. Philippines, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, and New Zealand, the number is 270 in America, in cluding certain specified States of the Union, por tions of Canada, -British Honduras, Brazil and Peru, 1,130; the total number of Jesuits scattered over the Globe, in purely missionary work, being 2,377. These are of various nationalities but the vast are French. In distribution the majority great attention is paid to nationality thus in Illyria, Dalmatia, and Albania, they are all Venetians ; in Con ;
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in Africa, Asia stantinople and Syria, Sicilians Minor and China, French while no French Jes uits are to be found in any part of the American Continent. In the Bombay and Bengal Presidencies, they are Germans and Belgiums, respectively in the Philippines, Spanish in the Malay Archipel in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, ago, Dutch Irish in the United States, Germans, Neapolitans, and Piedmontese, are found working in specified and ;
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those laboring among the Indians of Canada are Canadians ; in the British West India Colonies, they are English; in Central America, distinct districts
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in South America, Italians, Spaniards Spaniards and Germans, the Italians and Germans having all Brazil to themselves, doubtless because of the enormous Italian and German immigration to Brazil. It will be understood that the spheres of labor of the ;
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