president hinckley

CASPER, the United States (AFP) - Mormon church chair Gordon Hinckley, which devoted its life to widen the range of the group of overseas, died in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the end of the Sunday at the age of 97, announced the church. A statement public by the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days, like is made call officially Mormon, known as Hinckley was deceased with its apartment in the downtown area of Salt Lake City to 7:00 pm "causes of the incident at the age." It did not work out. "the members of its family were with her bedside", according to the official statement. "a successor should not be officially chosen by the Church Quorum of the Twelve Apostles only after president Hinckley the burial in the next days." But if the tradition is respected, 81 years Thomas Monson, the senior of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, will take the changing by way of president. Hinckley, considered as a prophet by the members of the church, was used by way of president since March 1995. The Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of Last Days (LDS) asserts a membership on a worldwide scale 13 million inhabitants, but less than half of them live in the United States. Thirty-six percent of the members of the church to remain in Latin America and 17 percent apart from the Western hemisphere. An important community LDS exists in Canada. Mormons recognize Jesus-Christ like the chief of their church, but they show the principal Christian confessions of the Great Apostasy, or the loss of the original authority to direct the Christian movement. In its first years, the Church and its members were the object of a religious persecution, which caused many members to flee in the West of the interior and to settle in what is today the American State of Utah. The Church encourages its young members to be useful during two years full-time on proselytism missions in the world. Consequently, nearly 53000 Mormon missionaries currently work in Americas, of Europe, of Asia, of Africa and other areas of planet. Moreover, more than 3500 special correspondent operations church in the whole world as specialists in the care of health, the teachers, the supervisors of construction, the agricultural experts and direction of the trainers. Last year, church LDS marked the induction of its millionth missionary since 1830. During last months, the church was the subject of public discussion, because owing to the fact that the candidate with presidential the republican leader Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, is member. Certain surveys implied that the rise of 20 percent of the American electorate will not vote for a candidate in presidential Mormon reason of their religious differences. Hinckley began its service of the church as a young man in Great Britain, and occupied a certain number of positions which led to the church to be a president on a worldwide scale of the faith. As a member of the First Presidency, the supreme body of the church, it had a major role in the temporal administration and businesses ecclesiastic of the Church, whose members are divided in some 171 countries and territories. It was the first never chair Eglise to go to Spain, where in 1996 it broke ground for a temple in Madrid, and in Africa, where it met thousands of the Saints of the Last Days in Nigeria, in Ghana, in Kenya, in Zimbabwe and in South Africa. It travelled around the world to return visit to members of the church and a construction schedule of temples world. Hinckley was born on June 23, 1910, in Salt Lake City, Utah, a son of Bryant Strigham and Ada Bitner Hinckley. It was preceded in death by his wife. Hinckley is survived by five children and 25 grandchildren.