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Drifting wrote:According to the official 2010 census.
Population = 191 million
Mormons = 226,000 (0.118% of population)
ftp://ftp.ibge.gov.br/Censos/Censo_Demo ... tab1_4.pdf
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# Faith Congregations Active Members Adherents Percent Annual Growth
1 Catholic 0 0 147280800 80.00% 0.94%
2 Jehovah's Witnesses 8099 536270 1329194 0.72% 0.94%
3 Seventh-day Adventists 3599 936575 1873150 1.02% 6.00%
4 Latter-day Saints 1796 254788 1019153 0.554% 3.51%
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(google helps You to guess who and where)
wrote:Elder Holland and Elder Oaks were sent to Chile and the Phillipines respectively, I have been curious about the results of their tours. I’ve been reading Plutarch lately, so I can’t help but thinking about them as proconsuls, sent out by the Mormon Senate to set the provinces in order.
it wrote:"Potemkin village" has also been used to describe the attempts of the government of the Soviet Union to fool foreign visitors. The government would take such visitors, who were often already sympathetic to socialism or Communism, to selected villages, factories, schools, stores, or neighborhoods and present them as if they were typical, rather than exceptional. Given the strict limitations on the movement of foreigners in the USSR, it was often impossible for these visitors to see any other examples.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil and the Amazon Region
SALT LAKE CITY —
The first known members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) in Brazil were two German families who immigrated to Brazil — one in 1913 and the other in 1923. During the decade that followed, others joined the Church, and the first congregation was organized in Joinville in 1930.
By the end of the 1950s, the number of Church members totaled 3,700. Today, more than 1.1 million Latter-day Saints live in Brazil.
Drifting wrote:On the 23rd April 2012 President NewsRoom said:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil and the Amazon Region
SALT LAKE CITY —
The first known members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) in Brazil were two German families who immigrated to Brazil — one in 1913 and the other in 1923. During the decade that followed, others joined the Church, and the first congregation was organized in Joinville in 1930.
By the end of the 1950s, the number of Church members totaled 3,700. Today, more than 1.1 million Latter-day Saints live in Brazil.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/c ... nts-brazil
ludwigm wrote:According to http://www.cumorah.com/index.php?target=main&wid=30:The site declares the line 4 is from Official LDS Statistics...Code: Select all
# Faith Congregations Active Members Adherents Percent Annual Growth
1 Catholic 0 0 147280800 80.00% 0.94%
2 Jehovah's Witnesses 8099 536270 1329194 0.72% 0.94%
3 Seventh-day Adventists 3599 936575 1873150 1.02% 6.00%
4 Latter-day Saints 1796 254788 1019153 0.554% 3.51%
(LDS membership and unit data are derived from the LDS Church Almanac)
As the retention rate is 20-25 % outside of US, this fits to the standard.
The same case in Chile and the Philippines, where the census and official data shows some difference...somebody
(google helps You to guess who and where)
wrote:Elder Holland and Elder Oaks were sent to Chile and the Phillipines respectively, I have been curious about the results of their tours. I’ve been reading Plutarch lately, so I can’t help but thinking about them as proconsuls, sent out by the Mormon Senate to set the provinces in order.
From http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_3661419 (By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Published April 1, 2006 12:00 am, and it is nothing about April 1):
By the numbers
535,000 - Members on the LDS Church rolls
200,000 - Names in the "Lost Addresses" file
120,000 - People who identified themselves as Mormons on the 2002 Chilean census
57,000 - Average attendance at sacrament meeting, nationwide
-- Source: Ted Lyon, Brigham Young University specialist on Latin America
See Потёмкинские деревни, Potyomkinskiye derevniit wrote:"Potemkin village" has also been used to describe the attempts of the government of the Soviet Union to fool foreign visitors. The government would take such visitors, who were often already sympathetic to socialism or Communism, to selected villages, factories, schools, stores, or neighborhoods and present them as if they were typical, rather than exceptional. Given the strict limitations on the movement of foreigners in the USSR, it was often impossible for these visitors to see any other examples.
just me wrote:Are those stats a joke? How can the Catholic Church have 0 congregations and 0 active participants? LMAOludwigm wrote:some statistic copied from cumorah.com
paraphrase of
Genesis 4:9
(after watching a few semester presented by professor LittleNipper)
wrote:And the JUST ME said unto ludwigm, Where is from this jocose statistic of thy cumorah site? And he said, I know not: Am I every statistic's keeper?
subgenius wrote:and how many of them participated in the census?
even the census in the USA estimates that it misses about 2% of population (6.4 million) and counts some people more than once (up to 3.1 million)
and of this under-count it is noted that it occurs mostly among the poor (and minority)...hmm..wonder about the accuracy in the favelas ?
but i am sure whatever gnat you are straining here is well supported and critical to the LDS church at such a level that one can not help but be shocked out of membership.
not...Drifting wrote:subgenius wrote:and how many of them participated in the census?
even the census in the USA estimates that it misses about 2% of population (6.4 million) and counts some people more than once (up to 3.1 million)
and of this under-count it is noted that it occurs mostly among the poor (and minority)...hmm..wonder about the accuracy in the favelas ?
but i am sure whatever gnat you are straining here is well supported and critical to the LDS church at such a level that one can not help but be shocked out of membership.
So what you are contributing is that you disbelieve the official census information but implicitly believe President Newsroom.