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| Membership
Distribution |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has
congregations spread throughout the world. |
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| Community |
| "For Latter-day Saints, community is an essential and eternal part of
life in this world and in the world to come. From the time the Church was established
(1830), its teachings have placed emphasis on principles of unity, cooperation, mutual
assistance, and beautification of one's surroundings. The community of believers
envisioned by the Prophet
Joseph Smith continues today, based essentially on the principles he
established." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| The
Church in Africa |
| "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has
been a presence in Africa since 1853, but for the first 125 years it was established only
in southern Africa. Applications by the Church for admittance into central Africa in the
1960s were denied, but those in 1978 were approved, and growth of the Church there has
been impressive." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| The Church in
Asia |
| The Church has grown steadily in Japan, but government prohibitions have
hampered the Church's growth in other parts of Asia. |
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| The
Church in Australia |
| "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was introduced into
Australia when a seventeen-year-old British convert, William James Barratt, emigrated from
England to Adelaide in November 1840." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| The Church
in the British Isles |
| "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came to the British
Isles when seven LDS missionaries landed at Liverpool, England, on July 19, 1837." Encyclopedia
of Mormonism |
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| The Church in
Canada |
| "The ranks of Church members all across Canada have grown steadily,
though not spectacularly." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| The Church in Europe |
| "The Protestant countries of Western Europe—Scandinavia,
Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands—played a major role in the growth and
success of the Church from the beginnings in the 1830s until well into the twentieth
century." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| The Church in Hawaii |
| "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been in Hawaii
since 1850, when Elder Charles C. Rich, an apostle, called ten LDS men from the
gold mines of northern California to open missionary work in the Sandwich Islands, now
Hawaii." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| The Church in South
America |
| "Where the Church originally had only one mission in
all of South America, in January 1991 it had 43 missions, 381 stakes and districts, and
3,791 wards and branches serving over 1.35 million members." Encyclopedia
of Mormonism |
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| The Church in the Middle
East |
| "....the Church has small congregations in several Middle Eastern
countries, mostly because of the influx of expatriate (mainly American) Church members
working there." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| Gathering and
Colonization |
| A series of articles about the gathering of Israel and past
colonization efforts. |
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| (See Basic Beliefs home page; Church Organization and Priesthood Authority home page) |
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