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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.
Matthew Cowley (August 2, 1897 – December 13, 1953) was an American missionary in New Zealand and then served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1945 until his death.
The earliest converts at the official opening of the mission were in December 1851. They included Emily and Joseph Popplewells, Bridget Gallimore, and nine others. [ 26 ] : 161–162 The Sydney Branch , a small organised congregation of Latter-day Saints, was organised on 4 January 1852 with twelve members.
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
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.
LeGrand Richards (February 6, 1886 – January 11, 1983) was a prominent missionary and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served as the seventh presiding bishop of the LDS Church from 1938 to 1952, and was then called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles by church president David O. McKay. [1]
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.
During a three-year period in the early 1960s, Hanks was the president of the LDS Church mission in England. Among the missionaries in his mission were Jeffrey R. Holland and Quentin L. Cook, who both later became apostles of the church, [4] as well as D. Michael Quinn, historian of Mormonism who was later excommunicated as one of the September ...