The English Wikipedia article on Compassion International, the evangelical child-sponsorship charity founded by Everett Swanson in 1952.
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A tertiary encyclopedic reference for organizational founding and structure facts; treated at the same tier as other Wikipedia-sourced organization and denomination citations already live in this database. NotesTertiary reference, used only for uncontested founding history: founded 1952 by Rev. Everett Swanson, an evangelical minister who began sponsoring children orphaned by the Korean War, today an evangelical Christian child sponsorship and development organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_International
Source Typereference
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This source names Colorado directly: "organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado."
This source names Evangelical directly: "Everett Swanson, an evangelical minister who began sponsoring children orphaned by the Korean War, today an evangelical Christian child sponsorship and development organization headquartered in..."
This source names Korean directly: "sponsoring children orphaned by the Korean War, today an evangelical Christian child sponsorship and development organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado."
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