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LDS Church's Humanitarian Efforts Honored in Bolivia

August 2014

Assemblyman Angel Villacorta Vargas Assemblyman Angel Villacorta Vargas, left, presents humanitarian award to Area Seventy Elder Rene J. Cabrera, who accepted the award on behalf of the Church.
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La Paz’s Departmental Legislative Assembly recently honored the Church for its ongoing tradition of charitable service both in the city and across the entire Andean nation.

Included in the award - which was presented on July 25 to local Church leaders - was also national recognition of the Church’s recent 50th anniversary in Bolivia.

The award lauded the Church and its members “as an institution and living example of valued humanitarian aid.”

The Departmental Legislative Assembly presented the award to the Church at a formal ceremony in the auditorium of the Central Bank of Bolivia. Some 500 delegates representing a variety of constituencies participated in the event.

(Read more at Deseret News)

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