Monday, November 12, 2018

Updated Country Profile - Syria

Click here to access our updated Reaching the Nations country profile for Syria where there is one branch and at least two member groups. All members in the country are native Syrians. Most members are recent converts. Church operations in Syria are supervised by district leadership in neighboring Lebanon.

5 comments:

Chris D. said...

Matt, as a side note, with the Cora Venezuela Stake organization you posted here, and confirmed on LDS classic maps, was that on : Sunday, October 21st, or Tuesday, October 23rd, or Sunday, October 28th? Much thanks if you can clarify my confusion. Thanks for all your great work here.

Chris D. said...

Sorry, Matt, for misspell. I meant Coro Venezuela Stake.

James G. Stokes said...

Hey, Chris! I am not Matt, but I may have found an answer for you. According to the link below, that stake was organized on October 14, 2018. It is an unofficial, non-Church-affiliated site, but until something more official is posted, I hope this information is helpful to you.

http://www.fullerconsideration.com/units.php

Chris D. said...

James, Thank you, again! On this blogsite, Matt had listed the date as October 23rd, which fell on a Tuesday, which to me was an odd day for any Stake Conference to organize. Usually Stake conference would be a Saturday or Sunday.

James G. Stokes said...

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, Chris! At around the time you posted that comment, I was knee deep into what turned out to be a 10-day hospital stay. Surprisingly, if you look back at some other stake creation dates, there are at least one or two which were, for whatever reason, created mid-week. I would have to dig more deeply to ascertain why that occurred in those cases, but I imagine in this particular case, since the exact date was uncertain, Matt used a mid-week date as a place-holder until the correct information was made known to him.