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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 ...
The distinction is important to a large segment of ex-Mormons, many of whom consider their decision to leave as morally compelling and socially risky. According to 2014 Pew data, around 1/3 of adults raised LDS no longer adhere to the faith (up from around 10% in the 1970s and 1980s) and in 2008 only 25% of LDS young adults were actively involved.
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
A prospective missionary receiving the call to serve is generally considered to be a major event in LDS culture; family members, friends, and members of the prospective missionary's congregation often gather together when a call arrives, which the prospective missionary opens and reads aloud to the group.
Robert Dean Hales (August 24, 1932 – October 1, 2017) was an American businessman and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1994 until his death.
When two young Mormon missionaries find themselves locked in a menacing battle of wills with a suave but sinister stranger, the tenets of their faith are tested as they fight to make it out of his ...
In 1984, when the LDS Church first organized areas with area presidencies, Wirthlin was the first president of the Europe Area. The area was headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and covered all of Europe and Africa. [1] Wirthlin's call to the Quorum of the Twelve came shortly after his call to serve in the church's Presidency of the Seventy.
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 ...