Here is a list of the missing non-sensitive countries that the Church does not publish statistical data for on its Newsroom site. Congregational data in terms of meetinghouse location are available for all of these countries on the Church's official meetinghouse locator:
- Belarus
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Jordan
- Kosovo
- Lebanon
- Mali
- Morocco
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Qatar
- Senegal
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom constituent countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
- Vietnam
I am requesting that those who are interested in obtaining these missing data to please complete this website feedback form provided by the Church and request that data for these countries be posted on the Facts and Statistics page. My hope is that if there are enough requests it will prompt the Newsroom staff to update the site with the missing country-specific data. The lack of information about the Church in these countries on the Facts and Statistics page not only makes it difficult to assess the size and growth of the Church in these locations, but it can also lead many to erroneously believe that there is no Church presence in these nations. Please make sure your responses are respectful.
13 comments:
Hello!
It is true what you say, there is little or no information regarding those countries in their baptized, but without the desire that it seems a criticism, I do not see interest in the information being more, that is regrettable.
Continuing with sincerity, the Church says little about many important and vital issues in the Church, generating doubts and comments.
Before www.familysearch was enabled as a platform for genealogy, we used the PAF, at that time we offered ourselves free of charge, to the brother who saw genealogy in the area of that time that was Chile, to photograph and help by making indexes that remained To speed up the work, we never found answers, only evasive.
Therefore, it is not surprising that these statistical data are not published, despite the modernity of the Church, it has its reservations.
Thanks for this comprehensive blog,
Omar Elías Valenzuela
Santiago de Chile
If I were a member living in Mali, I wouldn't want info published about it and where. That would create risk for members that wouldn't be worth the info.
I can see hesitancy on publishing stastitical information on especially Oman and Qatar. All the more so since members are expatriates and information on expatriates used for negative purposes.
Hopeful and John Pack Lambert - data on the number of members presents very little risk. Most of the countries I mentioned in this post have no safety concerns whatsoever compared to other nations where the Church does publish these data. Hence, this is the source of my frustration.
Some of the countries are closer hold with information due to political and religious and/or cultural reasons. I have been to Turks and Caicos and I am not sure there. Perhaps some local churches are involved? Like the ones in Ghana wanted to hurt the reputation of the Church?
Belarus is wacky country, or government, from what I know. They are playing soccer in these quarentine times, from what I gather. I hope that the virus does not spread because of that. Any guesses as to when Church will re-congregate? Hmmmmm
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Cuba still has Raul Castro in charge. Who is next in line the there.
Muslim countries are sensitive for many reasons. Doesn't make it right. So cool about U.A.E. and Shanghai. Barriers are falling...
Mali has had a Latter-day Saint mayor, presidential candidate and ambassador, Yeah Samake, for several years. He mentioned in an interview once that (unlike Mitt Romney) he had never faced any discrimination or prejudice because of his faith.
U.A.E. forbids proselytism but is light-years ahead of the rest of the Middle East in religious freedom and tolerance. The government's eagerness to demonstrate this to the world seems to be at the heart of its invitation to build a temple, and may result in a much larger and fancier temple than the number of members would suggest.
Poor Brother Samake was going to make a run for president in that Sahel country when serious war and terrirism broke out, and thosr plans changed, not just his but all elections. I know terrorist strikes and kidnappings are a serious issue in Mali, Burkina Faso, and nations around there.
I have submitted a request, Matt. Strange these countries aren't listed. Some may be due to size perhaps (accidentally overlooked?), or others due to not realizing they are a sovereign state, but Vietnam and the countries that make up the UK make no sense.
I imagine the UAE temple would probably include Pakistan in its district, right?
Also, I don’t know if it’s been brought up yet, but do you guys think that The Restored Church will now be working feverishly to update all of its signs on its buildings to include the new symbol? If not, do you guys think that the new symbol will be added to newly constructed buildings?
Thee are still a lot of buildings from the 1970s and 80s with the old 1974 logo either on them or on a sign that is nearby, especially if the standalone sign might be a stone monument type. That older logo was introduced in 1974, before that what you see at the top of a First Presidency letter was seen at times.
So almost everything we see now will have either logo, they may not be quite able to replicate the Christus part accurately on stone due to the fine detail, but the new text part most certainly on new installs. Found that graphic separate from the text part at the bottom of the Church website too.
Interview with Elder Uchtdorf about the changes in missionary work from Covid-19. https://www.ldsliving.com/Elder-Uchtdorf-Shares-How-Missionary-Work-Has-Changed-Since-COVID-19-Gives-Advice-for-Those-Who-had-to-Return-Home/s/92713?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email
The UK is a nation at the United Nations.
Single Parliament although Scotland has a Parliament its foreign affairs, military are represented by Westminster, the Scottish Parliament has devolved powers in other areas.
For the information of readers of this blog, I wanted to note that the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square has released a new logo, and the First Presidency today announced the location of and preliminary information for the Bentonville Arkansas Temple, which makes it likely that temple will be among those to have a groundbreaking before the end of this year:
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/the-tabernacle-choir-at-temple-square-unveils-new-logo
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/bentonville-arkansas-temple-location-released
I have provided further analysis of these developments on my blog:
https://stokessoundsoff.blogspot.com/
My thanks once again to you all.
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