Pacific Islanders and Mormonism
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pacific-islanders-and-mormonism-173-9029676
title:
Pacific Islanders and Mormonism
text:
Pacific Islanders have a particular place in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its first non-English-speaking mission was in the region in 1844, less than twenty years after the church's founding, and there are currently six temples among the Pacific Island regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. In 2015 the Latter-day Saint population in the area was increasing in percentage and absolute numbers. Since the 1850s Mormon leaders have identified Polynesian is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islanders_and_Mormonism
date created:
2013-04-14T20:31:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T05:01:58Z
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