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"The Mexican Mormon War" (documentary on the Mormon vigilante militia fighting a drug cartel in Chihuahua). Vice.com. 2012. Bennion, Janet (2012). "The Church of the Firstborn of the 'Fulness' of Times (The LeBarons)". Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender, and Politics in Mormon Fundamentalism. Brandeis University Press. pp. 43– 50.
LDS Church Shot and killed May 4, 1912 Diaz, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico James D. Harvey LDS Church Shot and killed 49 August 27, 1912 Colonia Pacheco, Mexico Joshua Stevens LDS Church Killed by Mexican rebels 1915 San Marcos, Hidalgo, Mexico Rafael Monroy (branch president) [49] LDS Church Execution by Liberation Army of the South: 1915
Fifteen policemen were killed and five were wounded 1 May 2015 Jalisco attacks: May 1, 2015 Jalisco: 18 Tanhuato–Ecuandureo shootout: May 22, 2015 Tanhuato, Michoacán 22+ to 42 [125] [126] Narvarte case: July 31, 2015 Colonia Narvarte, Mexico City 5 Murder of photographer and journalist Rubén Espinosa along with four women [127] [128] Topo ...
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.
By 1962 its missionary work subsumed to a degree into that of the Fulness of Times') [1] Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God (founded by Ervil LeBaron, 1972) [2] Informal schisms: Unknown: Number of followers "A few hundred" in Chihuahua and as many in the Salt Lake City area [3] to, perhaps, 1,000 [4] Other name(s) Church of the ...
Joel was baptized into the LDS Church in 1931 in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, where the LeBarons had moved when Joel was an infant. Beginning in 1936, the LeBaron family became close to Joseph White Musser , a leader of the young Mormon fundamentalist movement in Mexico.
In 1989, the Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation killed two American missionaries in Bolivia. [109] From 1999 to 2006, three LDS missionaries were murdered worldwide, while 22 died in accidents of some sort. [112] In 2008, three men from Port Shepstone, South Africa were convicted of raping and robbing two female LDS missionaries in June ...
Following the death of Brigham Young in 1877, missionary efforts in Mexico were halted, until in 1879 when missionaries were again sent to Mexico City. [17] The first person baptized by missionaries in Mexico City was Dr. Plotino Rhodakanaty, a prominent Mexican anarchist and socialist figure.