...same for Nicholas Kristof, but he reserves the right to change his mind from time to time; so do I.
MAPUTO, Mozambique: Mention the words 'evangelical missionary,' and many Americans conjure up an image of redneck zealots' forcing starving children to be baptized before they get a few crusts of bread.
In reality, the wave of activity abroad by U.S. evangelicals is one of the most important — and welcome — trends in our foreign relations. I disagree strongly with most evangelical Christians, theologically and politically. But I tip my hat to them abroad.
In a house beside the filthy garbage dump here in Mozambique's capital, a 17-year-old named Sonia Angeline was giving birth in early June. She had no doctor and no midwife, and after four days in labor, she was a hairsbreadth from becoming one more Mozambican woman to die in childbirth.
