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Apia Samoa Temple

  • Pacific islanders feel spiritual uplift

    President Dieter F. Uchtdorf arrived in the Samoas Nov. 7 to deliver messages of encouragement and hope and promise to multitudes of resilient members who will forever feel the pain exacted by a recent deadly earthquake and tsunami.
  • Samoa's Mormon members remain resilient

    Recently, Pacific Area President Tad R. Callister toured tsunami-weary Samoa, visiting the homes of several members who had been affected by the Sept. 29 disaster.
  • Country information: American Samoa

    Jan. 1, 2009: Est. population, 65,600; Members, 14,740; Stakes, 4; Wards, 30; Branches, 6; Percent LDS, 22.5 or one in 4.5; Pacific Area, Samoa Apia Mission.
  • Quake, tsunami take Samoan members' lives

    Eight Latter-day Saints, including two children, were killed and two others hospitalized in the Samoan islands after a Sept. 29 magnitude 8.0 undersea quake triggered a deadly tsunami that wiped out several villages and sent residents scrambling for high ground.

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