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Elders Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson, two American missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) were killed in La Paz, Bolivia on May 24, 1989, by members of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación-Zarate Willka terrorist group who associated them and the church they represented with perceived American imperialist activities.
John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a tribe in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity. [3] [4]
Roger Hunt (missionary) LDS Church Shot and killed by a security guard who thought he had stolen a car 19 May 24, 1989 La Paz, Bolivia Todd Ray Wilson (missionary) [9] [51] LDS Church Assassination in terrorist attack by Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation: 20 May 24, 1989 La Paz, Bolivia Jeffrey Brent Ball (missionary) [9] [51] LDS Church
Robert Elmer Kleasen (September 20, 1934 – April 21, 2003) was an American who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1975 for the murder of two missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, near Austin, Texas.
In 1989, the Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation killed two American missionaries in Bolivia. [108] From 1999 to 2006, three LDS missionaries were murdered worldwide, while 22 died in accidents of some sort. [111] In 2008, three men from Port Shepstone, South Africa were convicted of raping and robbing two female LDS missionaries in June ...
Their plans were preempted by the arrival of a larger group of about 10 Huaorani warriors, who killed Elliot and his four companions on January 8, 1956. Jim Elliot was the first of the five missionaries killed when he and Peter Fleming were greeting two of those attackers. Elliot's body was found downstream, along with those of the other men.
This Memorial Park and monument honor the memory of Elder Joseph Standing of Salt Lake City, Utah, a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Mormon) who was killed here by a mob July 21, 1879. His companion, Elder Rudger Clawson who later became president of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church was unharmed.
The 1998 kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov, Russia involved the abduction of two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Andrew Lee Propst and Travis Robert Tuttle, on March 18, 1998. [1] One of the kidnappers had a friend invite the missionaries to his apartment in Saratov, Russia.