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This insightful and inspiring article tells about the LDS Saints in Ghana during the time the Church was banned there, 1989/1990.   It truly shows the value of MINISTERING!  This is history I didn't know, and the saints there can be an example to all of us in these times! The power of ministering: How the enduring faith of members overcame 'The Freeze' in Ghana View 36 items Emelia Ahadjie, left, greets Juliet Akrong in Accra, Ghana, on Friday, April 20, 2018. Photo: Ravell Call, Deseret News . By Tad Walch Updated 17 MAY 2018 11:34 PM ACCRA, Ghana — Wielding machine guns in the midday summer sun, the soldiers invaded the mission home. The automatic weapons added fear to the bewilderment felt by mission leadership and staff. Minutes earlier during a lunch break, they learned from a radio broadcast that Ghana’s government had frozen all activities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “We couldn’t understand what that meant,...

This is one of the most amazing true stories I have read, of faith and hope, and patience! Preaching the Gospel in Africa Before the Priesthood Revelation By Maurine Proctor  · May 30, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Leading up to the June 1 st  LDS Church commemoration of the 40 th  anniversary of the Revelation on the Priesthood, Meridian Magazine has been featuring a series of articles celebrating the event. These have included profiles of the people deeply affected as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how this revelation came to be.  Here is the latest profile of a truly remarkable man who brought the Gospel to Ghana in an unbelievable way. Though Brother Johnson passed away in 2012, the following was taken from an interview Meridian Magazine conducted with him in 2004, near the time of the Accra Ghana Temple dedication.  A World We Don’t Know Driving down the road from Accra to C...

This is so interesting -- to learn what our Church is doing around the world, and how to get the news from different countries.   Mormons Around the World: Peru, Ghana, Indonesia, Australia By The LDS Newsroom  · April 18, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE MormonNewsroom.org features stories from its international Newsroom websites to share what members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live. Peru: Mormon Helping Hands Answer the Call in Local Disaster Latter-day Saints, wearing their familiar  Mormon Helping Hands  yellow shirts and vests, and themselves suffering from the effects of flooding rainfall, left their homes to help their neighbors. “I could not stay home watching what was happening in my country; I had to do something,” said Jose. Such were the thoughts of many Mormons who try to follow t...

This is so interesting!  Web links to Mormon Newsrooms in several other languages!  It could help a person keep up with the foreign language they have learned on their missions! Mormons Around the World: Nigeria, Peru, Canada, Philippines By The LDS Newsroom  · March 20, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE MormonNewsroom.org features stories from its international Newsroom websites to share what leaders and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live. Nigeria: LDS Charities Helps Save 1.8 Million Children LDS Charities , in partnership with the  Pediatrics Association of Nigeria  (PAN), has helped save more than 1.8 million babies in the past 10 years through the neonatal resuscitation  project in Niger “If we save the lives of children, we brighten the hope of a better society,” said Kadun...