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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
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.
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.
Pages in category "American Mormon missionaries in Mexico" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The church's pamphlet "Priesthood Expounded" and other tracts became instrumental in the conversion of nine LDS Church missionaries of the church's French Mission to the LeBaron order, an incident that has been described as the "worst missionary apostasy in the history of the [LDS] Church". [26]
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 ...
Three others are killed and four injured at a bar in Tulum, Quintana Roo, while four are killed in Salamanca, Guanajuato. [183] [184] 2023 Ciudad Obregón shooting 29 December 2023 Ciudad Obregón, Sonora 8 Eight people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. The shooting's target, a cartel ...