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After the 1978 revelation, the South African government revoked its limits on visiting LDS Church missionaries, [15] and the LDS Church started actively proselyting to blacks. Church president Spencer W. Kimball visited Johannesburg in 1978 for an area conference, [ 15 ] and the first black branches formed in Soweto in the 1980s.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates 449 missions [1] throughout the world, as of June 2024. Most are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city.
The Durban South Africa Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Durban, South Africa. [5] The intent to construct the temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on 1 October 2011. [ 6 ]
The first Motswana to serve a full-time mission for the LDS Church, Yakale Million Moroka, began serving as a missionary in 1999 in the South Africa Cape Town Mission. In the early 2000s, the church formed its first branch in Francistown in the north of Botswana. In 2009, missionaries were regularly sent there for the first time.
The LDS Church has 367 temples in various phases, which includes 202 dedicated temples (193 operating and 9 others undergoing renovations [11]), 3 with a dedication scheduled, 48 under construction, 1 with a groundbreaking scheduled, [12], and 112 others announced (not yet under construction).
Church members Benjamin Richey and George Barber preached in India in 1849, but they were not official missionaries of the church. Chile: 1851 Parley P. Pratt, Phoebe Pratt and Rufus C. Allen Phoebe was one of Parley's plural wives. Malta: 1852 Lorenzo Snow and Jabez Woodard South Africa: 1853 Jesse Haven, Leonard L. Smith, and William H. Walker
Mormon missionaries in South Africa (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
After two church members died during the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the LDS Church required its missionaries to remain in their apartments as a precautionary measure. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] On August 1, 2014, the LDS Church announced that it would transfer all of its 274 missionaries out of Sierra Leone and Liberia, thereby closing the Liberia ...