Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)

To be used as a reference, below is a list of LDS membership in 2009 for countries and territories with a reported church presence. Countri...

India Last Sunday, a new district was created in India.  The Rajahmundry India District was organized in from the  Visakhapatnam India Dis...

The Japan Kobe Mission reports that the Church is evacuating all LDS missionaries from the Japan Sendai and Japan Tokyo Missions to other mi...

Arizona With 13 wards and two branches, the Prescott Arizona Stake was divided last Sunday to form the Prescott Valley Arizona Stake.  The...

Today a new stake was organized in Colorado.  This becomes the first time a new stake has been created in Colorado since 2004 when the Castl...

The Church has entered a phase of rapid congregational growth in the Sogere area of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea as demonstrated...

New Stake in Georgia A new stake was organized in Georgia.  The Conyers Georgia Stake was created from the Atlanta Georgia, Jonesboro Geor...

For the first time since 1998 when the Kumasi Ghana Stake was organized, a new stake was organized in Ghana from a single district.  The Ass...

Stake discontinued in Australia For the first time in LDS Church history in Australia, a stake was discontinued. The Sydney Australia Parr...

Makeni, Sierra Leone opening for missionary work For the first time in about seven years, full-time missionaries will open an additional c...