Mormon Church Leader
to Visit Here

KOREA TIMES 1996.05.18

Gordon Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, will visit Korea May 21-23 to promote the church's missions thro ugh meetings with clergy and laity here.

The world leader of the Mormon Church, who will arrive at Pusan on Tues day will meet with the church missionaries working in Pusan and Taejon a nd laity from the area at the Pusan KBS Hall on his first day in Korea.
Prior to holding a Seoul rally of Mormons at the Weightlifting Gymnasiu m in the Olympic Park, Hinckley may call on President Kim Young-sam.
A church spokesman said the top Mormon leader will talk about the churc h's charity missions for North Korean people.

As part of its humanitarian service in North Korea and Southeast Asia, the church responded to the appeal for the flood-stricken North Koreans by sending $250,000 worth of medical supplies, foodstuffs, winter clothi ng and cash.
The six containers of aid items were received Dec. 18, 1995 and immedia tely distributed.

The Church of Latter-Day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, stresses family values. It claims a worldwide total membership of 9.4 m illion in 156 countries and territories. Its missionaries number 49,000. The Korean church membership is 67,000 with 400 missionaries in 162 war ds and branches. It has one headquarters temple and spends annually abou t $11 million for proselytizing.
Hinckley visited Korea five times since 1960 and this is his first visi t here after he became the 15th president of the church founded by Josep h Smith in New York State in 1830.

 



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