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Kentucky in Africa was a colony in present-day Montserrado County, Liberia, founded in 1828 and settled by American free people of color, many of them former slaves.A state affiliate of the American Colonization Society, the Kentucky State Colonization Society raised money to transport people of color from Kentucky—freeborn volunteers as well as enslaved individuals set free on the condition ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Liberia, excluding honorary consulates. Location of diplomatic missions of Liberia:
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Liberia. At present [update] the capital city, Monrovia , hosts 21 embassies and a delegation of the European Union . Trade missions and honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.
Liberia and Israel established ties in 1957 with the accreditation of Israeli ambassador Ehud Avriel. [140] Liberia severed ties with Israel over the Yom Kippur War in 1973. [141] Relations are re-established in 1983. [142] On 8 June 2022, Liberia announced its plans to open a trade office in Jerusalem, which is to become an embassy. [142] Italy
The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.
The mission owned nearly 500 acres (200 ha) of land, on part of which were planted 60,000 coffee trees. Almost 1,000 acres (400 ha) adjoining the mission were owned and cultivated by members of the congregation in the Muhlenberg Mission. [5] An effort was made to provide for the industrial training of the girls. [5]
In June 2007, the stake was discontinued and divided into two mission districts. The next July a new mission, the Freetown Sierra Leone Mission, which covered Sierra Leone and Liberia, was organized. Liberia was converted into its own mission in July 2013. 2,200 converts were baptized in 2021, the most since the mission was established in 2013. [5]
Since 1847, Liberia operated as an independent nation with a constitutional system modeled on that of the United States. [3] For a long portion of its history, its government was dominated by Americo-Liberians, a group of free people of color and freed slaves from the United States and their descendants who first established Liberia in 1822 as a colony of the American Colonization Society, a ...