Conference messages to circle globe
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Thousands of leaders, members and visitors from around the world will gather on Temple Square Oct. 3-4 for the 168th Semiannual General Conference to hear messages of inspiration and counsel from Church leaders.
The conference will be under the direction of the First Presidency, with President Gordon B. Hinckley and his counselors, President Thomas S. Monson and President James E. Faust taking turns conducting the sessions.The messages of the conference will be transmitted to many areas of the world.
Two general sessions will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., along with the general priesthood meeting at 6 p.m. Sunday general sessions will be at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
All sessions of the conference will be televised via satellite to more than 3,400 meetinghouses throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
More than 1,200 cable television and radio stations in the United States and Canada will also carry proceedings on a public service basis. Cable systems and privately owned analog dishes will receive proceedings on GE1 Satellite (Channel 1). The Saturday and Sunday morning sessions will be transmitted live to Europe, with other sessions transmitted on a delayed basis on Oct. 4.
All Europe transmissions will go in 11 languages on IntelSat K (analog) and Orion 1 (digital).
There are more than 150 stake and ward buildings with downlink equipment in the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Switzerland.
Church units in areas of the world where satellite and other transmissions are not available will receive videotapes of conference sessions through Church distribution centers located in 12 international areas of the Church.
Conference proceedings will be simultaneously translated into 35 languages. Languages include Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Croatioan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Swedish. Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai, Tongan and Vietnamese.
