Philippines Naga mission is created
Philippines Naga mission is created
1,519 entries in this era, shown 200 to a page. This is page 3 of 8, covering 1989 to 1993. See the same material on the moving timeline.
1989
Political terrorists kill Elders Jeffrey B.
Political terrorists kill Elders Jeffrey B. Ball and Todd R. Wilson in La Paz, Bolivia. They are first LDS missionaries to be killed for political reasons. FBI agent Mike McPheters, formerly LDS missionary in Bolivia, receives Bolivian national medal of honor for his successful investigation of Ball-Wilson murders.
Portland Oregon Temple
Portland Oregon Temple was dedicated 19–21 August 1989 by Gordon B. Hinckley.
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that several
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that several Mormon men have telephoned death threats to Edwin B. Firmage for publicly advocating ordination of LDS women to priesthood office. Two days earlier TRIBUNE reported those remarks by Firmage, University of Utah law professor, former bishop, and grandson of former First Presidency counselor Hugh B. Brown. However, there are no church sanctions against Firmage.
Stake and ward budget assessments end; missionary costs are equalized
Stake and ward budget assessments end; missionary costs are equalized.
Texas Corpus Christi mission is created
Texas Corpus Christi mission is created
The 100th stake in Mexico was created in Tecalco
The 100th stake in Mexico was created in Tecalco. Mexico became the first country outside the United States with 100 or more stakes.
The 1989 Church Membership 7,308,444
1989 Church Membership 7,308,444
The Berlin Wall came down, paving
The Berlin Wall came down, paving the way for eventual unification of East and West Germany.
The BYU Jerusalem Center for Near
The BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies was dedicated by President Howard W. Hunter of the Quorum of the Twelve.
The Choir performs at the inauguration
The Choir performs at the inauguration of President George H. W. Bush, who calls it “a national treasure.”
The first LDS meetinghouse in the Republic of Hungary
The first LDS meetinghouse in the Republic of Hungary, located in the capital city of Budapest, was dedicated by President Thomas S. Monson.
The government of Ghana bans LDS
The government of Ghana bans LDS missionary work and public meetings. The ban is lifted seventeen months later. During the ban members are permitted to hold meetings in their homes.
The renovated Carthage Jail complex in Illinois
The renovated Carthage Jail complex in Illinois, where the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred, was dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley, highlighting activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Mormon settlement of Nauvoo, Ill.
The Second Quorum of the Seventy
The Second Quorum of the Seventy was created and all General Authorities serving under a five-year call were sustained as members, along with another eight newly called General Authorities.
Two LDS missionaries are deliberately assassinated
Two LDS missionaries are deliberately assassinated in La Paz Bolivia by guirrilla terrorists.
Utah Ogden mission is created
Utah Ogden mission is created
Utah Provo mission is created
Utah Provo mission is created
Utah Salt Lake City mission is created
Utah Salt Lake City mission is created
1990
A new Church software package called
A new Church software package called FamilySearch, designed to simplify the task of family history research, was released by the Church.
Argentina Mendoza mission is created
Argentina Mendoza mission is created
Argentina Resistencia mission is created
Argentina Resistencia mission is created
Argentina Trelew mission is created
Argentina Trelew mission is created
Arizona Tucson mission is created
Arizona Tucson mission is created
Belgium Antwerp mission is created
Belgium Antwerp mission is created
Bonneville Media Communications changes its name to Bonneville Communications
Bonneville Media Communications changes its name to Bonneville Communications.
Brazil Manaus mission is created
Brazil Manaus mission is created
Brazil Salvador mission is created
Brazil Salvador mission is created
California Riverside mission is created
California Riverside mission is created
Changes in temple ceremony promote gender
Changes in temple ceremony promote gender equality, de-emphasize symbolic violence, and eliminate Protestant minister from endowment drama. This becomes nation-wide news in special reports by NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, and in Associated Press report published in local newspapers.
Church organized in 128 nations with 1,700 stakes
Church organized in 128 nations with 1,700 stakes; a third of members live outside the U.S.
Church retains the Edelman public relations agency to correct "myths and falsehoods"
Church retains the Edelman public relations agency to correct "myths and falsehoods" about the Church.
Conference sustains first general authority of black African descent
Conference sustains first general authority of black African descent, Second Quorum of Seventy’s Helvecio Martins of Brazil (who is released in 1995). Chieko Nishimura Okazaki is sustained as first counselor in general presidency of Relief Society, first non-Caucasian member of auxiliary presidency in Mormon history.
Czechoslovakia Prague mission is created
Czechoslovakia Prague mission is created
El Salvador San Salvador East mission
El Salvador San Salvador East mission is created
El Salvador San Salvador West mission
El Salvador San Salvador West mission is created
End of Wimbledon tennis tournament where
End of Wimbledon tennis tournament where LDS player Rich Leach and partners win men's doubles and mixed doubles. At Wimbledon in 1995 Leach wins his "29th doubles title."
Family Registry (microfiche) and FamilySearch (CD-ROM) introduced at the Family History Library
Family Registry (microfiche) and FamilySearch (CD-ROM) introduced at the Family History Library.
Finland Helsinki East mission is created
Finland Helsinki East mission is created
Georgia Macon mission is created
Georgia Macon mission is created
Germany Dresden mission is created
Germany Dresden mission is created
Germany Duesseldorf mission is created
Germany Duesseldorf mission is created
Greece Athens mission is created
Greece Athens mission is created
Honduras San Pedro Sula mission is created
Honduras San Pedro Sula mission is created
Howard W. Hunter History
Died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Hungary Budapest mission is created
Hungary Budapest mission is created
In 1990 there were 26,255 missionaries
In 1990 there were 26,255 missionaries called to serve.
In Phoenix, arizona, gunman fires several
In Phoenix, arizona, gunman fires several bullets at 120 LDS young women and their leaders as they board busses for summer camp, wounding one woman adviser. He explains that he wasn't to kill "religious" people.
Italy Padova mission is created
Italy Padova mission is created
Japan Okinawa mission is created
Japan Okinawa mission is created
LaRae Orullian is elected national president
LaRae Orullian is elected national president of Girl Scouts of America. She is Mormon president of Women's Bank in Denver, Colorado.
LDS missionaries Manuel Antonio Hidalgo and Christian Andreani Ugarte are shot and killed
LDS missionaries Manuel Antonio Hidalgo and Christian Andreani Ugarte are shot and killed in Peru.
Memorial service at Mountain Meadows, Utah,
Memorial service at Mountain Meadows, Utah, for descendants of victims and descendants of perpetrators.
Mexico Oaxaca mission is created
Mexico Oaxaca mission is created
Mexico Tijuana mission is created
Mexico Tijuana mission is created
Missionary Gale Stanley Critchfield, age twenty,
Missionary Gale Stanley Critchfield, age twenty, is stabbed to death in Dublin by eighteen-year-old Irishman who follows missionaries to their apartment for sole purpose of attack. "We wonder why, when a young man is called to serve the Lord, he isn't watched over so closely that his life is protected," says First Presidency counselor Gordon B. Hinckley at funeral. "We don't know why some things happen."
More than 2,500 Church satellite dishes in North America receive General Conference
More than 2,500 Church satellite dishes in North America receive General Conference.
Mormon pianist Kevin Kenner wins bronze
Mormon pianist Kevin Kenner wins bronze in International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and also wins Rachmaninoff Prize. Hyun Soo Choi, known professionally as Hans Choi, receives first prize in male vocal Tchaikovsky competition. He is first non-Russian, first Asian, and first Mormon to receive this vocal prize.
New missions in the Eastern
New missions in the Eastern European countries of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland highlighted the record 29 missions created in 1990.
Nicaragua Managua mission is created
Nicaragua Managua mission is created
Oklahoma Oklahoma City mission is created
Oklahoma Oklahoma City mission is created
Oregon Eugene mission is created
Oregon Eugene mission is created
Philippines Ilagan mission is created
Philippines Ilagan mission is created
Philippines San Pablo mission is created
Philippines San Pablo mission is created
Philippines Tacloban mission is created
Philippines Tacloban mission is created
Poland Warsaw mission is created
Poland Warsaw mission is created
Portugal Lisbon North mission is created
Portugal Lisbon North mission is created
Portugal Lisbon South mission is created
Portugal Lisbon South mission is created
Registration of the Leningrad Branch of the Church was approved by the Council
Registration of the Leningrad Branch of the Church was approved by the Council on Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers in the Soviet Union.
Soviet Union grants legal registration for LDS branch in Leningrad, renamed St
Soviet Union grants legal registration for LDS branch in Leningrad, renamed St. Petersburg next year.
Texas Houston East mission is created
Texas Houston East mission is created
The 1990 Church Membership 7,761,179
1990 Church Membership 7,761,179
The Children's Songbook published by the Church Music Committee
The Children's Songbook published by the Church Music Committee.
The Church was officially recognized in Kenya
The Church was officially recognized in Kenya.
The First Presidency announced in November a new policy for United States and Canada
The First Presidency announced in November a new policy for United States and Canada, effective Jan. 1, 1991, that would equalize contributions required to maintain a full-time missionary.
The government of Ghana gave permission
The government of Ghana gave permission for the Church to resume activities in that West African country.
The U. S. Supreme Court lets
The U. S. Supreme Court lets stand an appellate-court ruling that the city of St. George may not pay for the external lighting of the LDS Temple there.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision that money given directly to missionaries was not a deductible donation under federal tax law. The Church encouraged members to follow established procedures of contributing through their wards.
Toronto Ontario Temple
Toronto Ontario Temple was dedicated 25–27 August 1990 by Gordon B. Hinckley.
U.S. Supreme Court rules that direct
U.S. Supreme Court rules that direct donations to LDS missionaries are not deductible under U.S. tax laws. Therefore, First Presidency advises church members to make their donations directly to church, while earmarking funds for individual missionaries.
Utah population about 1.7 million
Utah population about 1.7 million; Salt Lake City population about 160,000; 26,438 new missionaries sent out.
Washington Tacoma mission is created
Washington Tacoma mission is created
1991
ARIZONA REPUBLIC begins three-part series on LDS church finances and claims that church receives
ARIZONA REPUBLIC begins three-part series on LDS church finances and claims that church receives $4.5 billion in tithing annually. LDS headquarters announces that this estimate is "grossly overstated" but does not say by how much.
At a B. H. Roberts Society
At a B. H. Roberts Society meeting, David Knowlton discusses his situation, identifies the issues he feels are involved, and concludes, "It is simply a bad habit for authorities to engage in generalized intimidation. . . . We intellectuals should . . . stop looking over our shoulders to see if the Brethren are going to disagree with us, call us to repentance, hassle us, limit our access to information, or challenge us. In many ways that is their job--although it is indeed ours to critique all those actions, . . . to protect ourselves and argue for what we think important. We should act with security of purpose as thoughtful people who have a necessary role to play within the Church as community." At the same meeting D. Michael Quinn explains that general authorities have "typically attacked the messenger" who brings "unauthorized exposure of Mormonism's checkered past. . . . These attacks have usually been harsher when the messenger was a participant in the uncomfortable truths she or he revealed about Mormonism."
Bode Uale, first judge of Samoan
Bode Uale, first judge of Samoan ancestry in United States, is appointed to Family Court of Hawaii.
Brazil Porto Alegre North mission is created
Brazil Porto Alegre North mission is created
Brazil Porto Alegre South mission is created
Brazil Porto Alegre South mission is created
Brazil Sao Paulo East mission is created
Brazil Sao Paulo East mission is created
Brazil Sao Paulo Interlagos mission is created
Brazil Sao Paulo Interlagos mission is created
Bulgaria Sofia mission is created
Bulgaria Sofia mission is created
By year's end there are 44 operating temples
By year's end there are 44 operating temples, 23 of which are outside the U.S.; Church membership 8 million.
BYU students discover bomb disguised as book in Harold B
BYU students discover bomb disguised as book in Harold B. Lee Library. It is similar to bomb which damages LDS chapel in Provo, Utah, earlier in year.
Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Utah "ranks last in proportion of students
Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Utah "ranks last in proportion of students who are female" throughout the United States. This is result of Utah's "traditions that inhibit the educational progress of women."
Church forms an Audiovisual Department, consolidating all Church-owned audiovisual facilities
Church forms an Audiovisual Department, consolidating all Church-owned audiovisual facilities.
CHURCH NEWS feature article about Pulitzer
CHURCH NEWS feature article about Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. However, BYU's administration cancels invitation for her to speak on campus due to her support of Equal Rights Amendment and other feminist causes twenty years ago.
CHURCH NEWS feature article, "LDS Assist
CHURCH NEWS feature article, "LDS Assist in Aftermath of Riots" in Los Angeles.
CHURCH NEWS statement that "although the Church has issued earlier statements in 1978
CHURCH NEWS statement that "although the Church has issued earlier statements in 1978 and 1979 advising LDS members not to write the FCC regarding the petition to allegedly stop religious broadcasting, form letters to FCC regarding the matter continue to circulate among members, even in Church meetings." NEWS states that FCC has received 21 million pieces of mail since 1977 about problem that "doesn't even exist." Inability of LDS headquarters for thirteen years to stop Mormons from writing such letters indicates that many American Mormons give greater heed to propaganda by fundamentalist Christians and political ultra-conservatives.
DESERET NEWS publishes report by national
DESERET NEWS publishes report by national Associated Press of first counselor Thomas S. Monson’s allowance for conscientious objection against Persian Gulf War. Although emphatic that LDS church leaders and membership support national decisions concerning war, Monson adds that a Mormon conscientious objector "can serve in some capacity that will suit his conscience and country together." This contrasts with LDS hierarchy's position during Vietnam War when only public statement was Boyd K. Packer's condemnation of conscientious objectors.
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East mission
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East mission is created
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West mission
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West mission is created
Ecuador Guayaquil North mission is created
Ecuador Guayaquil North mission is created
Ecuador Guayaquil South mission is created
Ecuador Guayaquil South mission is created
England Birmingham mission is created
England Birmingham mission is created
Fifty years after the Church began
Fifty years after the Church began keeping individual membership records, it completed computerizing membership records worldwide.
First Counselor Gordon B. Hinckley tells
First Counselor Gordon B. Hinckley tells meeting of regional representatives: "I regard it as inappropriate for anyone in the Church to pray to our Mother in Heaven" which he defines as one of "small beginnings of apostasy." In response to newspaper stories about these non-public remarks, he repeats them publicly. In his address to general women's meeting following Sept., Hinckley quotes that statement as part of his answer to letter from fourteen-year-old girl he calls "Virginia." A few days earlier at BYU commencement a student had prayed to "Our Father and Mother in Heaven."
First Presidency and Quorum of Twelve
First Presidency and Quorum of Twelve Apostles, by infrequently used format of joint declaration, issue statement which refers to the Sunstone Symposium's annual meetings on 7-10 Aug. It condemns "recent symposia" for presentations which are "offensive . . . in bad taste . . . and publicized in such a way as to injure the Church or its members or to jeopardize the effectiveness or safety of our missionaries." In following weeks church authorities instruct local leaders to meet with Mormons, particularly BYU faculty, who participated in Sunstone to persuade them to cease such activities.
First Presidency calls 500,000th Mormon to serve full-time mission since 1930
First Presidency calls 500,000th Mormon to serve full-time mission since 1930.
France Marseille mission is created
France Marseille mission is created
Germany Berlin mission is created
Germany Berlin mission is created
Idaho Pocatello mission is created
Idaho Pocatello mission is created
In 1991 there were 24,861 missionaries
In 1991 there were 24,861 missionaries called to serve.
In Sang Han, first Korean general
In Sang Han, first Korean general authority, called to Second Quorum of Seventy.
Kenya Nairobi mission is created
Kenya Nairobi mission is created
LDS church receives legal recognition in Republic of Russia
LDS church receives legal recognition in Republic of Russia, and Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs concert in Bolshoi Theater on June 24. CHURCH NEWS cover photograph emphasizes that this is "America's Choir" at Red Square in Moscow.
Legal holiday commemorates one hundred years
Legal holiday commemorates one hundred years of Mormon presence in Tonga which issues two postage stamps for occasion. King Taufa'ahau Tupuo IV speaks at commemorative services. One-third of Tonga's population is LDS.
Membership in the Church reached 8mil
Membership in the Church reached 8 million, about two years after membership hit the 7 million mark in December 1989.
MONEY magazine ranks Provo-Orem as America's
MONEY magazine ranks Provo-Orem as America's "No. 1 most-livable metropolitan area." By 1985 it also has highest percentage of church membership in nation.
New Zealand Wellington mission is created
New Zealand Wellington mission is created
Newspaper reports that general authorities have
Newspaper reports that general authorities have ordered BYU administrators and local church leaders to discipline BYU professor for giving lecture at recent Sunstone Symposium. Persons are dropped from LDS positions and threatened with excommunication for questioning wisdom or necessity of official declaration against symposia.
Paul H. Dunn sends an "open letter
Paul H. Dunn sends an "open letter to the members of the Church." It states: "I confess that I have not always been accurate in my public talks and writings. Furthermore, I have indulged in other activities inconsistent with the high and sacred office which I have held. For all of these I feel a deep sense of remorse, and ask forgiveness of any whom I may have offended. My brethren of the General Authorities, over a long period of time, have conducted in-depth investigations of the charges made against me. They have weighed the evidence. They have censured me and placed a heavy penalty upon me. I accept their censure and the imposed penalty, and pledge to conduct my life in such a way as to merit their confidence and full fellowship. In making these acknowledgements, I plead for the understanding of my brethren and sisters throughout the Church and give assurance of my determination so to live as to bring added respect to the cause I deeply love, and honor to the Lord who is my Redeemer. Sincerely, Paul H. Dunn." The letter is the lead news story on all three Salt Lake City TV News programs and was reported in the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE and the DESERET NEWS. Elder Dunn's statement that for a "long period of time" Church leaders "conducted in-depth investigations" of his actions appears to contradict a previous First Presidency statement responding to the Arizona Republic story that it had "no way of fully or finally verifying the accuracy or inaccuracy" of the allegations. Church spokesperson Don LeFevre tells the DESERET NEWS that the nature of Elder Dunn's penalty is "an internal matter, and we don't discuss such matters" publicly.
Philippines Baguio mission is created
Philippines Baguio mission is created
Philippines La Union mission is created
Philippines La Union mission is created
Philippines San Fernando mission is created
Philippines San Fernando mission is created
Recognition of the Church in the Ivory Coast
Recognition of the Church in the Ivory Coast, the center of French West Africa, was announced at a special meeting of Church members in Abidjan.
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that general
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that general authority Loren C. Dunn has censored church display commemorating the sesquicentennial of Relief Society. He orders removal of Joseph Smith’s statements regarding priestly role of women.
South Africa Durban mission is created
South Africa Durban mission is created
Student at BYU's commencement offers prayer
Student at BYU's commencement offers prayer to "Our Mother and Father in Heaven."
The 1,800th stake in the Church,
The 1,800th stake in the Church, the San Francisco de Macoris Dominican Republic Stake, was created.
The 1991 Church Membership 8,089,848
1991 Church Membership 8,089,848
The 500,000th full-time missionary in this dispensation was called
The 500,000th full-time missionary in this dispensation was called.
The Choir performs on a tour
The Choir performs on a tour through Eastern Europe, including performances in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia.
The Hungarian edition of the Book
This translation of The Book of Mormon was done for Brazil who spoke Spanish. Reference information: Anderson, Kai A. (June 1997), "In His Own Language", Liahona: 29,
The Russian Republic, the largest in the Soviet Union, granted formal recognition
The Russian Republic, the largest in the Soviet Union, granted formal recognition to the Church following the Tabernacle Choir's concert in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater.
The Tabernacle Choir embarked on a 21-day tour of eight European countries
The Tabernacle Choir embarked on a 21-day tour of eight European countries, including five countries in which the choir had not performed before: Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Soviet Union.
Trinidad Tobago mission is created
Trinidad Tobago mission is created
Venezuela Caracas East mission is created
Venezuela Caracas East mission is created
Venezuela Caracas West mission is created
Venezuela Caracas West mission is created
1992
A gospel literacy effort sponsored by the Relief Society to help increase literacy throughout
A gospel literacy effort sponsored by the Relief Society to help increase literacy throughout the Church was announced in a letter from the First Presidency to priesthood and Relief Society leaders.
Aileen Clyde, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency
Aileen Clyde, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, while conducting the general women's meeting welcomes them: "It is good to have President Hinckley, President Monson, President Hunter, and other priesthood leaders with us tonight to symbolize the priesthood partnership we so value in the Church and in our homes." When the talk is published in the ENSIGN the phrase "to symbolize the priesthood partnership we so value in the Church and in our homes" is deleted.
Among newly assigned mission presidents are
Among newly assigned mission presidents are Haitian black Fritzner A. Joseph, Ghanian black Ato K. Dadson, and Nigerian blacks John A Ehanire and Christopher N. Chukwurah.
Among those called to Second Quorum
Among those called to Second Quorum of Seventy are Lino Alvarez (first Mexican general authority), Augusto A. Lim (first Filipino general authority), and Kwok Yuen Tai (first Hong Kong Chinese general authority). Also Gary J. Coleman is first general authority with formal training in counseling (master's and doctorate).
Argentina Buenos Aires West mission is created
Argentina Buenos Aires West mission is created
Bryan Waterman, who had written a summary about the controversy surrounding Mother in Heaven
Bryan Waterman, who had written a summary about the controversy surrounding Mother in Heaven for STUDENT REVIEW in July/August 1992, is called in by his stake president, Allen Bergin, on the instructions of Elder Malcolm Jeppsen (of the Second Quorum of Seventy) who wanted Bryan interviewed immediately and also at the end of the semester. Bergin, had been supplied with a photocopy of the article highlighted in yellow. Bryan, expresses some concern in the second interview about the creation of a file on him that contained only "narrowly focused" material on controversial topics, says he has "misgivings about the nature of the `confidential files" maintained on church members.
Cameroon Yaounde mission is created
Cameroon Yaounde mission is created
Colombia Bogota North mission is created
Colombia Bogota North mission is created
Colombia Bogota South mission is created
Colombia Bogota South mission is created
Commemorating the "second rescue" of the ill-fated Willie and Martin handcart pioneers
Commemorating the "second rescue" of the ill-fated Willie and Martin handcart pioneers, President Hinckley dedicated three monuments in central Wyoming. The Riverton Wyoming Stake researched family histories and performed temple ordinances for those pioneers whose work was not previously done.
Counselor Gordon B. Hinckley presents copy
Counselor Gordon B. Hinckley presents copy of five-volume ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MORMONISM to Vatican Library.
DESERET NEWS reports Pulitzer Prize historian
DESERET NEWS reports Pulitzer Prize historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has received MacArthur fellowship, "the genius prize."
DESERET NEWS reports that students at Ricks College
DESERET NEWS reports that students at Ricks College, second largest LDS school, elected twin sisters, Kris and Kim Shelley, as president and vice-president of students. First female president there since World War II, during shortage of male students.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
Elder Dallin H. Oaks, in a BYU fireside address, delivers a twenty-point address entitled, "Our Strengths Can Become Our Downfall." Among the strengths which, if excessive or unbalanced, become weaknesses are "unusual commitment to one particular doctrine or commandment, . . . a strong desire to understand . . . the gospel . . . past the fringes of orthodoxy, seeking answers to mysteries rather than a firmer understanding and a better practice of the basic principles"
Eugene Kovalenko is tried by a high council court in Ventura, California, for apostasy
Eugene Kovalenko is tried by a high council court in Ventura, California, for apostasy. Part of the evidence against him is a transcription of a 1990 Sunstone presentation. During the question and answer period, Eugene said: "We have the right to sustain or not sustain our leaders. I believe that we have defaulted powerfully with that process. It's become a rubber stamp. . . . We deserve the leaders we have. If they are old, decrepit, and carrying on with stuff that's a hundred years old, that's our fault." Later at a stake conference, Kovalenko votes not to sustain general and stake leaders.
First Presidency statement that King James
First Presidency statement that King James Version of Bible is only English language Bible to be used in LDS church meetings. This codifies position maintained for decades by former First Presidency counselor J. Reuben Clark.
For third time in as many
For third time in as many decades, national honor society Phi Beta Kappa rejects BYU's application for membership because BYU does not encourage "a liberal arts education which . . . fosters free inquiry."
General authority Jacob de Jaeger tells
General authority Jacob de Jaeger tells Salt Lake City congregation that Latter-day Saints have responsibility "to get along with everybody--and that includes those that read the ENSIGN and those that read SUNSTONE."
In 1992 there were 28,716 missionaries
In 1992 there were 28,716 missionaries called to serve.
Joseph Anderson dies at age 102,
Joseph Anderson dies at age 102, oldest surviving general authority in Mormon history. He had been emeritus member of First Quorum of the Seventy since 1978.
Keynoting the devotional for the estimated
Keynoting the devotional for the estimated 30,000 participants at BYU Education Week, Elder Neal A. Maxwell criticizes some intellectuals: "Exciting exploration is preferred by them to plodding implementation, as speculation and argumentations seem more fun to these few individuals rather than consecration, so they even try to soften the hard doctrines. By not obeying, they lack knowledge and thus cannot defend their faith, and a few become critics instead of defenders."
LDS church-sponsored picnic hosts ambassadors and other diplomats from thirty-three countries at Marriott Family's
LDS church-sponsored picnic hosts ambassadors and other diplomats from thirty-three countries at Marriott Family's farm in Hume, Virginia. With at least one LDS apostle in cowboy clothing provided to all attenders, this "Ambassadorial Western Family Picnic" is annual event attended by diplomats from ever-larger number of nations.
Mexico Leon mission is created
Mexico Leon mission is created
Mexico Monterrey East mission is created
Mexico Monterrey East mission is created
Mexico Monterrey North mission is created
Mexico Monterrey North mission is created
Mexico Monterrey South mission is created
Mexico Monterrey South mission is created
Mexico Monterrey West mission is created
Mexico Monterrey West mission is created
Mexico Tampico mission is created
Mexico Tampico mission is created
New Delhi India Temple
This was a proposed temple by Neal A. Maxwell
Nigeria Ilorin mission is created
Nigeria Ilorin mission is created
Nigeria Jos mission is created
Nigeria Jos mission is created
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby mission
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby mission is created
Philippines Cabanatuan mission is created
Philippines Cabanatuan mission is created
Rex Mitchell, a professional mediator
Rex Mitchell, a professional mediator, is allowed to accompany Eugene but not to supply information or ask clarifying questions. According to his notes of the almost-six-hour disciplinary council, "Pres. Bryce was the central player and asked at least 90% of the questions. . . . It seemed much like a professional police process, done skillfully--e.g., do extensive investigation; bring in the suspect into a tightly controlled situation in which he is at a numerical/logistical/emotional disadvantage; give a minimal description of the charges; interrogate the witness in great detail, going over the same material in several ways, gradually inferring by your questions that you have inside/intimate information from many sources that the suspect did not anticipate; do not go into detail about your sources and do not show any documentation; continue the interrogation long/late enough to produce fatigue and possibly mistakes from the suspect; assume that the suspect is not telling the truth and ask questions designed to demonstrate discrepancies between what the suspect tells you then and past actions (writings); alternate, as convenient, between extremely literal interpretation of the suspect's writings and stretched inferences from the writings--in each case asking the suspect to justify your interpretation; profess to be interested in the well-being of the suspect; conceal any reactions to what the suspect says (minimize verbal or nonverbal cues to the suspects); do not give the suspect any information before, during, or after the session re the process or what happens next." Three weeks after the trial, Kovalenko receives a letter from the stake president announcing his excommunication for "'not sustaining' the Mormon leaders, showing insufficient remorse, and disobeying his local leaders."
Russia Moscow mission is created
Russia Moscow mission is created
Russia Saint Petersburg mission is created
Russia Saint Petersburg mission is created
Salt Lake Tribune reports that First
Salt Lake Tribune reports that First Presidency's spokesman has acknowledged existence of special "Strengthening the Members Committee" that keeps secret files on church members regarded as disloyal. Due to publicity on this matter, including NEW YORK TIMES, Presidency issues statement on 13 Aug. defending organization of this apostle-directed committee as consistent with God's commandment to Joseph Smith to gather documentation about non-Mormons who mob and persecute LDS Church. Presidency lists Apostles James E. Faust and Russell M. Nelson as leading the Strengthening the Members Committee. Faust becomes counselor in First Presidency in 1995.
The 1992 Church Membership 8,404,087
1992 Church Membership 8,404,087
The Choir tours Israel and performs
The Choir tours Israel and performs with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
The Church reached a milestone of 20,000 wards and branches with the creation
The Church reached a milestone of 20,000 wards and branches with the creation of the Harvest Park Ward in the Salt Lake Granger South Stake.
The Church was legally recognized in Tanzania
The Church was legally recognized in Tanzania.
The Church's 1,900th stake, the Orlando
The Church's 1,900th stake, the Orlando Florida South Stake, was organized by Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve.
The First Presidency authorized the use
The First Presidency authorized the use of humanitarian relief funds to be sent to Somalia and other African nations in the grip of the drought of the century. In an initial response, one million pounds of food was shipped.
The Tabernacle Choir left on a tour of the Holy Land
The Tabernacle Choir left on a tour of the Holy Land. Concerts were later held in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
U.S. Department of Health and Human
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presents plaque to Relief Society general president Elaine Low Jack in honor of Society's service for older women.
Ukraine Kiev mission is created
Ukraine Kiev mission is created
VICTIMS: THE LDS CHURCH AND THE MARK HOFMANN CASE
VICTIMS: THE LDS CHURCH AND THE MARK HOFMANN CASE, authored by Richard Turley, managing director of the LDS Historical Department, is published by the University of Illinois Press. Turley claims "unprecedented access" to church officials and "previously unavailable documents." He acknowledges that "a substantial amount of writing was done on church time."
Virginia Richmond mission is created
Virginia Richmond mission is created
1993
After being refurbished and remodeled
After being refurbished and remodeled, the former Hotel Utah was rededicated and renamed the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, housing office and meeting facilities for the Church and a theater showing the new film "Legacy."
Argentina Neuquen mission is created
Argentina Neuquen mission is created
ARIZONA REPUBLIC reports that First Presidency
ARIZONA REPUBLIC reports that First Presidency Spokesman Don LeFevre claims "the typical faithful Mormon" already knows that Ezra Taft Benson's mental condition prevents his participation in decision-making. This is in response to continued publicity of Steve Benson's statements during past week that his grandfather is mentally incompetent, and that LDS leaders are exploiting him by giving impression in photographs and official statements that church president is mentally active. Steve Benson withdraws from membership in LDS church in October, after excommunication of several scholars and feminists.
Australia Sydney North mission is created
Australia Sydney North mission is created
Australia Sydney South mission is created
Australia Sydney South mission is created
Baltic Mission mission is created
Baltic Mission mission is created
Brazil Florianopolis mission is created
Brazil Florianopolis mission is created
Brazil Recife South mission is created
Brazil Recife South mission is created
Brazil Ribeirao Preto mission is created
Brazil Ribeirao Preto mission is created
Brazil Rio de Janeiro North mission
Brazil Rio de Janeiro North mission is created
BYU officials terminate five junior professors,
BYU officials terminate five junior professors, including Cecelia K. Farr (pro-choice feminist) and anthropologist David Knowlton who has published studies of Latin American terrorism against LDS buildings and missionaries. In immediate response more than 100 students rally to protest lack of academic freedom at BYU, first such student demonstration at BYU since 1911. Subsequent rallies include holders of prestigious "Benson Scholarship," and Third World students who compare BYU's current situation with repressive regimes these students have fled. This is reported at length in CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, thus worsening BYU's reputation for academic freedom among administrators of nation's universities and grant-giving foundations.
California Carlsbad mission is created
California Carlsbad mission is created
California Roseville mission is created
California Roseville mission is created
Canada Toronto East mission is created
Canada Toronto East mission is created
Canada Toronto West mission is created
Canada Toronto West mission is created