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  • New visitors' center directors

    Eleven new visitors' center directors have been called with their wives by the First Presidency. They will begin service in January.
    Published: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011

  • Ambassador Stephen Beecroft receives human rights award

    The U.S. Department of State presented on April 21 in Washington D.C. the Diplomacy for Human Rights Award to R. Stephen Beecroft, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan
    Published: Wednesday, April 27, 2011

  • Country information: Mongolia

    Mongolia is located in east central Asia between Russia and China, and has a parliamentary type of government. Its religious composition: Tibetan Buddhist Lamaism 96 percent, Muslim (primarily in the southwest), Shamanism, and Christian 4 percent (1998).
    Published: Friday, Jan. 29, 2010

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Lamanite convert, Abish, played key role in bringing about conversions

Published: Saturday, May 23, 1992

Abish is distinguished because she is one of only three women named in the Book of Mormon. One sentence about the Lamanite woman convert is at once informative and cryptic: "she having been...