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Vietnamese chef finds the LDS Church, his foundation and a desire to help others
Hai Fitzgerald places a steaming dish of pasta in sauce in front of a customer at Thyme & Seasons Market Place. He turns away to check on another dish as the man takes his first bite. As the diner tastes the food, he exclaims, "Holy cow!" Fitzgerald whips back around. "No!" he says, with mock...
Mission History, 1949: First Missions to “the Orient”
Mormon Life says: A look back at The Friend from 1949. Click on the forwarding link to see the whole picture story.
A short lesson in the history of missionary work in the Far East, presented to the children of the Church in 1949:
450 Cambodian Saints celebrate 'Day of Service' with festival cleanup
Mormon Life says: President Eyring's challenge for a "Day of Service" has done so much good around the world.
More than 450 members of the Central, North and South districts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, recently carried out their local "Day of Service" project by cleaning up trash and other debris left over...
Youth from hong Kong and U.S. meet over video conferencing
Jo da Rosa from the West Columbia South Carolina stake was traveling for business in Hong Kong, China, in October 2010. With a desire to attend Church during his trip, he decided to attend the ward across the street from the Hong Kong China Temple.After sacrament meeting, a man from the Hong Kong...
BYU grads' award-nominated film 'River of Victory' features family's triumph over living conditions
Through filming "River of Victory" about a family who lives near a garbage dump in Cambodia, two returned Mormon missionaries found that happiness isn't limited to a location. “You can find happiness wherever you are,” noted Trevor Wright, director and producer of “River of Victory,” an...
Church launches new Hong Kong newsroom website
Only months after the launch of the Church’s Mexico Newsroom website, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has launched the Hong Kong Newsroom website: mormonnewsroom.hk.
Indonesia villages receive blessing of clean water
Obtaining the basic necessity of safe drinking water is a challenge many of Heavenly Father's children face each and every day. According to the World Health Organization, one in six people do not have access to clean water. That's why Church humanitarian efforts include clean water projects in...
BYU Students Raise Money to Send Fellow Student Home for Christmas
Provo, UT - As Brigham Young University students take their final exams this week, the one thing that will get them through is the thought of spending Christmas with their family. They will blast through their finals in two days if it means heading home a little earlier than expected. Some...
Hong Kong district celebrates welfare anniversary
It was a unique day of service on Saturday, December 3, 2011, when dozens of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Hong Kong China District assembled humanitarian kits and learned about poverty in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Church welfare system. ...
BYU seeks couples to teach in China
The David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU is seeking qualified couples and individuals to teach at highly respected universities in the People's Republic of China during the 2012-13 academic year. Although most teachers are hired to teach oral and written English, there is an...
Korean newspaper features LDS missionaries
“Whenever we say we’re Mormon, a lot of people think we’re polygamists,” said Elder Tyson Bailey, 21, his voice betraying a hint of exasperation. Their frustration is understandable: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints banned the practice of plural marriage in 1890, about a century...
Taiwan school fires Mormon teachers for faith, fined for discrimination
Mormon Life says: What's most remarkable is that this is the first time religious discrimination at work has been punished in Taiwan.
Taiwan has fined a school for firing two Mormon teachers over their faith, marking the first time that religious discrimination in the workplace has been punished on the island, officials said on...
Letters in the Jade Dragon Box: Finding the Church in China’s Past
Mormon Life says: Author Gale Sears did extensive research on China, and the Church in China, for her newest novel, Letters in the Jade Dragon Box. These are some of the discoveries she made as she researched that enigmatic country.
There are countries cloaked in mystery. One such country is China: an enigma of thousands of years of emperors, Confucian philosophers, peasant farmers and scientific discoveries of wonder. The...
Learning of new Mormon Church leaders in Cambodia
The six-month mark of our senior mission to the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia was on Oct. 6, 2007. My wife, Dianne, and I had touched down at the Phnom Penh airport on April 6 of that year, the same day that the first box of triple combinations in the Khmer language had arrived to bless the...
Missionaries in Japan help restore sacred Shinto shrine
The priests at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo — a shrine of such importance in Japan that it can be compared to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. — recently invited Church leaders here to describe how Latter-day Saints conduct their humanitarian efforts around the world, but especially in Japan...
