SOURCE: PBS Newshour
3-31-18
tags: religion, Brazil, Mormon
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3-31-18
New Asian-American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history
Breaking Newstags: religion, Brazil, Mormon
The Mormon church made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel on Saturday by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry.
The selections of Ulisses Soares of Brazil and Gerrit W. Gong, a Chinese-American, were announced at the start of a twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
They join a panel called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that, before Saturday, was made up entirely of white men from the U.S. with the exception of one German, Dieter Uchtdorf.
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