Uggah (left) and Cardinal Peter Turkson (right) striking gongs to open the International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medico-Social Assistants’ 20th congress in Kuching. — ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star
KUCHING: The “pioneering spirit” of the church and early missionaries contributed to Sarawak’s social and human development, says Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah.
He said the missionaries had ventured into the jungles of Borneo to help the rural population by setting up schools for education and small clinics for health-care.
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