August 2014
Assemblyman Angel Villacorta Vargas, left, presents humanitarian award to Area Seventy Elder Rene J. Cabrera, who accepted the award on behalf of the Church.
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.
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Representatives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints addressed the role of the Church’s global humanitarian outreach efforts at a meeting at the United Nations in New York City on 27 February 2014. The gathering was part of the Focus on Faith series of the Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) Relations and Advocacy Section of the U.N.’s Department of Public Information (DPI).