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Couple bound for war-torn nations: “An Oconee County couple has been training in August at the Mormon church headquarters in Utah to become directors of humanitarian aid efforts for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in war-torn Serbia and Bosnia.”
So to Speak | Dads biking to stop crimes against young: “Two dads from an organization that no parent wants to join pedaled yesterday into Columbus to say that America must do more to protect its children.
Ed Smart and Ahmad Rivazfar are on a cross-country bicycle trip representing the Surviving Parents Coalition (www.spcoalition.org), an advocacy group founded by people whose children were victims of terrible crimes.
“You think, ‘This is never going to happen to me,’ and then, when it does, you think, ‘We’ve got to make everyone out there understand that this is a real possibility,’” said Smart, 55, of Salt Lake City.
In 2002, his daughter Elizabeth, then 14, was abducted and held for nine months by a man who raped and imprisoned her before she managed to escape.
She is 22 and working as a Mormon missionary in France.
Campus notes 08.23 – Daily Herald: “
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Campus notes 08.23
Daily Herald The donor, who served as an LDS missionary in the Uruguay Paraguay Mission when Russell was its mission president, said he was greatly influenced by Russell … |
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Education Week: Mormons and the Middle East – Mormon Times: “
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Education Week: Mormons and the Middle East
Mormon Times The first LDS missionary in the Middle East was Jacob Spori who arrived in Istanbul in 1884. By 1895, small branches were in Syria, Turkey and Palestine. … and more » |
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Unique Chinese dancers tour Utah landscape during visit for International Days – Mormon Times: “
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Unique Chinese dancers tour Utah landscape during visit for International Days
Mormon Times John Vawdrey, a former LDS missionary who helps translate for the troupe, said the dress, the costumes, the music — which includes an unusual horse head … |
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For oyster clan, just another disaster in a series: “Arrest in serial-stabber case eases some but not all anxiety in Mich. city where 5 were killed. More>>”
Voisin, 34, is part salesman, part student of history (he spices his conversation with references to Teddy Roosevelt and abolitionist Frederick Douglass). He’s part spiritual seeker (he was a Mormon missionary in Bordeaux, France) and part pragmatic politician (he’s on the Terrebonne parish council). And Voisin is a full-time Cajun who lives, breathes, loves, eats and talks oysters – he’s lectured about them on five continents.
Missionary Wives Served Missions of Their Own: “Though today’s LDS missionaries are mostly young, unmarried men and women, for more than a century the Church called married men on missions, requiring them to leave their wives to shoulder the burden not only of caring for but providing for the children at home. The unsung sacrifice of these ‘missionary wives’ was the focus of a lecture July 8 by Chad Orton, archivist at the Church History Library.
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Unique Chinese dancers tour Utah – Deseret News: “
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Unique Chinese dancers tour Utah
Deseret News John Vawdrey, a former LDS missionary who helps translate for the troupe, said the dress, the costumes, the music — which includes an unusual horse head … |
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Mormon missionary work moving online – Mormon Times: “
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Mormon missionary work moving online
Mormon Times ROCHESTER, NY — For a dozen Mormon missionaries in upstate New York, the iconic tasks of ‘tracting’ and knocking on doors are things of the past. … |
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