The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church, plans to open its first temple in mainland China at a time when Beijing has been clamping down steadily on religious freedoms.
FILE PHOTO: A flag flies at half mask outside the world headquarters of the Mormon Church for Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., January 3, 2018. REUTERS/George Frey
A former cardiac surgeon, Nelson has spent time in China, studied Mandarin and was granted an honorary professorship by China’s Shandong University School of Medicine. Chinese law requires that places of worship register and submit to government oversight, but some have declined to register and are known as “house” or “underground” churches.
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