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Datum:	Sonntag, den 1. April 2001, um 19:34 Uhr
Betrifft:	wenigstens sorgen sie gut für ihre Armen...

Auch diesen Artikel aus der Tribune fand ich nicht uninteressant:

LDS Church Extends Hand to Needy Missionaries,
Sunday, April 1, 2001
  
LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley announced Saturday the establishment of an education fund to help missionaries from developing countries. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune) 
BY BOB MIMS
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

   Troubled by the poverty of many of the faith’s foreign-born missionaries, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley took a cue from Mormon history Saturday night in announcing the creation of the new Perpetual Education Fund.
    Under the new initiative, which takes its name from the church’s 19th-century Perpetual Emigration Fund for Mormon Pioneers, returned missionaries from emerging nations will be able to apply for low-interest loans beginning next fall to attend schools in their own communities.
    "We have many missionaries, both young men and young women, who are called locally and who serve with honor in Mexico, Central America, South America, the Philippines and other places," Hinckley told the priesthood session of the 171st Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    "They become excellent missionaries working side by side with elders and sisters sent from the United States and Canada," he said. "Then comes the day of their release . . . but many of them have great difficulty finding employment because they have no skills. They sink right back into the poverty from which they came."
    The key to halting that cycle, Hinckley said, is education -- schooling that allows missionaries returning to developing countries to compete for better jobs.
    Once gainfully employed, they can repay their loans, in turn giving future missionaries the opportunity for schooling.
    Earlier Saturday, the president opened the spring conference by declaring the church was healthy and growing, both in numbers and in its spiritual dedication.
    Hinckley said the church had firm plans to bring the total number of temples worldwide to 121, and probably would announce even more in the near future. (See story, page A-?).
   Like the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which loaned $12.5 million to help more than 100,000 Mormon pioneers settle in Utah between 1850 and 1887, the Perpetual Education Fund will eventually support itself as borrowers pay the church back.
    "This is a bold initiative, but we believe in the need for it and in the success that it will enjoy," Hinckley said, noting that the church will fund the program’s initial operations from existing contributions.
    He did not detail how big the fund would be to start, or how many loan applicants were expected, except to say it will "begin modestly" and "we can envision the time when this program will benefit a very substantial number."
    Eventually, Hinckley said, an emeritus general authority with a business background will be chosen to run the program, assisted by a church-appointed oversight board.
   Other speakers Saturday night hit hard at the moral choices and responsibilities facing members of the church’s all-male priesthood.
    Elder David E. Sorensen, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, cautioned Mormon men against pornography, which he compared to "a deeply poisonous, deceptive snake that lies coiled up in magazines, the Internet, the VCR and television."
    He advised Mormon men to "decide now, before you face a challenge, where to draw the line. Our prophet [Hinckley] teaches that if we decide now that we will not watch inappropriate media, but instead to walk away, ’the challenge is behind us.’ "
    Added Elder John H. Groberg, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy: "Do not sell your precious priesthood birthright for a mess of X- or R-rated pottage."
    e-mail: bmims@sltrib.com
   Copyright2001 by The Salt Lake Tribune, All rights Reserved.
   

wenigstens sorgen sie gut für ihre Armen... – vedma, 1.4.01 um 19:34 Uhr

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