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The LDS Church views slain missionaries as martyrs. Their names "will be engraved forever in the history of this Church as those who lived as faithful servants of God and died as martyrs to His eternal work[s]." [6] [7] The circumstances surrounding the politically motivated assassinations of Ball and Wilson affected people of many different ...
Historians observe that Brown continued to seek to reverse the ban "administratively", but Lee was among those who noted that it was a matter of God making his will known through revelation. [6] In December 1969, Lee initiated a release to church leaders, signed by Brown and N. Eldon Tanner , both serving as counselors in the First Presidency .
Soon after his call to the Quorum of the Twelve (c. 1975) Perry was called as a general authority and Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1972. The death of church president Harold B. Lee created a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve when Spencer W. Kimball , who had been serving as quorum president , became church president.
Joseph Standing [1] (October 5, 1854 – July 21, 1879) was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who was killed by a mob near the town of Varnell, Whitfield County, Georgia, in 1879. [2]
Oscar Zapata (missionary) LDS Church Shot and killed after getting off a bus 20 October 17, 1998 Ufa, Russia José Manuel Mackintosh (missionary) LDS Church Stabbed outside the lobby of a building where he and his companion had been visiting Church members 21 April 24, 1999 Abidjan, Ivory Coast Jonathan Philip Barrett (missionary) LDS Church
Shortly after his call to the Twelve, Snow left on a mission to Italy and French-speaking Switzerland. He later sent missionaries under his direction to India (1849–52). Snow was directly involved in missionary work in Italy and Switzerland, and also preached in Malta. He had planned to visit India, but various circumstances prevented this ...
After graduating from high school, Lee served as a missionary for the LDS Church to the Navajo Nation, known then as the "Southwest Indian Mission". Prior to his call as a general authority, Lee held a number of priesthood leadership callings, including elders quorum president, branch president, district president, and president of the Arizona ...
On September 6, 1934, McConkie received a call to serve in the Eastern States Mission, with Don B. Colton as his mission president. His first assignment was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . From May 1 to July 24, 1935, he served in the Cumorah District in Palmyra, New York , as part of an intensive missionary campaign tied to the dedication of a ...