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President Gordon B. Hinckley announces that Ricks College, a two-year college, will become a four-year university and be renamed Brigham Young University – Idaho. June 15 The Adelaide Australia Temple, the Church's eighty-ninth operating temple and the second in Australia, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. June 16 The Melbourne Australia Temple, the Church's ninetieth operating temple and the third in Australia, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. June 18 The Suva Fiji Temple, the Church's ninety-first operating temple and the first in Melanesia, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. June 23 21,000 guests attend “An Evening of Celebration” for President Hinckley's ninetieth birthday at the Conference Center. It features the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square and is broadcast to meetinghouses all over the world. President Hinckley explains that the party is not for him but is a gift to the community and those who have touched his life. June 27 A building permit is issued for the Monterrey Mexico Temple. July 8 The Mérida Mexico Temple, the Church's ninety-second operating temple and the ninth in Mexico, is dedicated by President Thomas S. Monson. July 9 The Veracruz Mexico Temple, the Church's ninety-third operating temple and the tenth in Mexico, is dedicated by President Thomas S. Monson. July 16 The Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple, the Church's ninety-fourth operating temple, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. July 30 The Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple, the Church's ninety-fifth operating temple, is dedicated by President James E. Faust. August 19 To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Toronto Ontario Temple and the fortieth anniversary of the Toronto Canada Stake, President Thomas S. Monson dedicates a historical monument honoring the contributions of early missionaries and members who served and lived in Upper Canada, including former Church President John Taylor. August 20 The Caracas Venezuela Temple, the Church's ninety-sixth operating temple, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. Before, the closest temple for the local Saints was in Lima, Peru, about two thousand miles away. August 26-27 The Houston Texas Temple, the Church's ninety-seventh operating temple and the second in Texas, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. September 2 In Birmingham, Alabama, Elder David B. Haight is presented with a cake for his ninety-fourth birthday. September 3 The Birmingham Alabama Temple, the Church's ninety-eighth operating temple, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. September 4 Elder David B. Haight and his wife Ruby celebrate their seventieth wedding anniversary. September 17 The Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple, the Church's ninety-ninth operating temple and the first in the Caribbean, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. September 23 Ground is broken and the site dedicated for the Snowflake Arizona Temple by Elder Rex D. Pinegar. October 1 The Boston Massachusetts Temple, the Church's one hundredth operating temple, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley, fulfilling his desire to have a hundred temples in operation before the end of this year. Due to a lawsuit contesting the proposed height of the steeple, it is dedicated without one. October 28 Ground is broken and the site dedicated for the Columbia River Washington Temple by Elder Stephen A. West. November 4 Ground is broken and the site dedicated for the Lubbock Texas Temple by Elder Rex D. Pinegar. Ground is broken and the site dedicated for the Monterrey Mexico Temple by Elder Lynn A. Mickelsen. November 24 The opinion page of the Santa Clarita Valley Signal in California publishes a letter titled “Enough is Enough” from a man named Paul Allen (not the same Paul Allen who co-founded Microsoft) complaining about the negative reputation of Mormons and praising for such aspects as their patriotism, clean living, work ethic, Christian values, and pretty girls. A year and a half later it is reproduced in an e-mail and goes viral. December 15 The Recife Brazil Temple, the Church's 101st operating temple and the second in Brazil, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. The previous closest temple, in São Paulo, was a fifty-hour drive away. December 17 The Porto Alegre Brazil Temple, the Church's 102nd operating temple and the third in Brazil, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. 2001 Mormon anthropologist Thomas Murphy announces his conclusion that Native Americans do not contain any Middle Eastern DNA, and his opinion that the Book of Mormon is therefore fictional. He makes several faulty assumptions regarding DNA science and the text itself, the most obvious being that no one even knows what to look for and that the book never precludes the possibility of other peoples in the Americas. The Church releases a new edition of the “For the Strength of Youth” pamphlet. March 18 The Montevideo Uruguay Temple, the Church's 103rd operating temple, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. March 31 President Gordon B. Hinckley announces the Perpetual Education Fund, a program that helps impoverished members in many countries to afford education and improve their circumstances by making low-interest loans. April 22 The Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, the Church's 104th operating temple, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. The dedicatory services are broadcast over the Church's encrypted satellite system to meetinghouses throughout North America. April 29 The Guadalajara Mexico Temple, the Church's 105th operating temple and the eleventh in Mexico, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. May 16 A steeple is added to the Boston Massachusetts Temple after the Church wins the lawsuit over its height on appeal. May 20 The Perth Australia Temple, the Church's 106th operating temple and the fourth in Australia, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. It is 1,400 miles away from the previous closest temple in Adelaide. May 27 Vandals break into a meetinghouse in Sandy, Utah, and cause over $100,000 in damage. They smash light fixtures and glass, spray fire extinguishers, and damage every faucet and toilet, causing flooding throughout the building. Police call it the worst case of vandalism they have ever seen. July Posting on Zion's Lighthouse Message Board, LDS critic Bill Barton demonstrates that a Martin Luther quote often referenced by Mormons to support their belief in the Great Apostasy is in fact an amalgamation of three unrelated statements and does not accurately reflect Luther's meaning. Kevin Barney writes an article for the FAIR website and requests the cessation of further reference to the fabricated quote. September 11 Radical Islamic terrorists hijack passenger planes and fly them into the World Trade Center in New York City, killing thousands and devastating the United States. An urban legend later spreads saying that transferring missionaries were supposed to be on board the planes, or that a zone conference was supposed to be held in the World Trade Center, and that they were miraculously saved by missing their appointments, but there is no truth to it. September 21 Angel Moroni statues are added to the Boston Massachusetts, Nauvoo Illinois, and The Hague Netherlands Temples, in commemoration of the 178th anniversary of the angel Moroni's appearance to Joseph Smith. November 18 The Columbia River Washington Temple, the Church's 107th operating temple and the third in Washington state, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. December 20 An angel Moroni statue is added to the spire of the Freiberg Germany Temple as part of a renovation and expansion project. 2002 Due to poor convert retention, low member activity, low temple attendance, and challenges training local leadership, Elder Dallin H. Oakes is assigned to serve as president of the Philippines area, the first time an Apostle has been assigned abroad in half a century. February The Ensign reprints the 1909 First Presidency statement “On the Origin of Man”, including the ambiguously anti-evolution sentences that were removed from the 1925 version. Whether this is an oversight or a deliberate choice is unknown, but many of the conservative Ensign staff are probably hostile toward the theory of evolution. February 2 The second meetinghouse in India is dedicated, hosting the Rajahmundry Branch. Although it is commonly regarded as the first, the first was in fact built by James Patric Meik a century and a half earlier. March 3 The Snowflake Arizona Temple, the Church's 108th operating temple and the second in Arizona, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. April 21 The Lubbock Texas Temple, the Church's 109th operating temple and the third in Texas, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. April 25 The Paul Allen opinion letter “Enough is Enough” from a year and a half ago is reproduced in an e-mail that goes viral and erroneously claims him to be the same Paul Allen who co-founded Microsoft. The newspaper receives hundreds of inquiries from members all over the world as to whether it is authentic, and General Manager Tim Whyte finally reproduces the letter with an editorial expressing his amazement at their incredulity. April 26 Vandals attack a meetinghouse in Magna, Utah, breaking a window and spilling cleaning materials around the building. April 28 The Monterrey Mexico Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. September 7 The Freiberg Germany Temple, the Church's thirty-third operating temple, is rededicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley, who also dedicated it the first time. It has been nearly doubled in size and the quality of construction and decor have been raised to higher standards. September 28 Elder M. Russell Ballard dedicates a monument in the Salt Lake City Cemetery to black pioneer and missionary Elijah Abel, sponsored by the Genesis Group and the Missouri Frontier Foundation. The monument describes him as the first African American priesthood holder of this dispensation, something the Church rarely mentions. November 17 The Monticello Utah Temple, the Church's fifty-third operating temple, is rededicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley following an expansion project that adds a second ordinance room, second sealing room, entrance canopy, waiting room, additional offices, and a laundry. December 8 The Los Angeles Times reports that Thomas Murphy may face excommunication for his genetics claims against the Book of Mormon, but the Church declines to confirm or deny it. 2003 Michael F. Whiting, an LDS assistant professor of integrative biology and member of the scientific review panel for the Systematic Biology program of the National Science Foundation, publishes an article titled “DNA and the Book of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective” in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. He briefly describes several reasons why DNA research can tell us virtually nothing about the authenticity of the Book of Mormon, and says he would be just as skeptical of anyone claiming that DNA proves the book true. A film called “The Legend of Johnny Lingo”, a remake of the 1969 BYU short film “Johnny Lingo”, is released. It provides much more backstory about the trader Johnny Lingo and his relationship with Mahana but retains the same message of self-worth and true beauty. February Thomas Murphy and Simon G. Southerton publish an article in the Anthropology News referring to their DNA research as a “Galileo Event” for the Church. The media seizes on this concept. February 24 A meetinghouse in Orem, Utah is defaced by vandals. April The Anchorage Alaska Temple is closed for a ten-month renovation project that nearly doubles its square footage. The renovation includes the addition of a second ordinance room, offices for temple staff, new men's and women's dressing rooms, a patron waiting room, a laundry facility, and an elevator. July 9 The Apia Samoa Temple, closed for an expansion and renovation project, burns to the ground in an accidental 45-minute blaze. July 10 Overwhelmed citizens find the angel Moroni statue standing dignified atop the remaining steel-and-concrete skeleton of the Apia Samoa Temple, and take courage in the sight. July 16 President Gordon B. Hinckley sends a letter to the Area Presidency announcing that the burned Apia Samoa Temple will be rebuilt. July 24 The angel Moroni statue is retrieved from the wreckage of the Apia Samoa Temple and put into storage. October 19 Ground is broken for the rebuilding of the Apia Samoa Temple by Elder Dennis E. Simmons of the Seventy. To create a larger temple site and a better view for passersby, a dated meetinghouse sharing the site is razed and a replacement chapel is built across the street. November 19 The irreverent television show South Park airs an episode titled “All About Mormons”, where a strange but friendly Mormon boy named Gary Harrison moves with his family to South Park. As the other characters ask questions, the show portrays an unflattering but mostly accurate musical version of Joseph Smith's story and concludes with the message that even if one's beliefs are ludicrous they can still help one be a better person. 2004 Mexico becomes the first country outside the United States to have over one million nominal church members. Elder Dallin H. Oaks ends his tenure as president of the Philippines area. He reports that convert retention, member reactivation, tithing payments, and church magazine subscriptions have increased during this time, but that challenges remain. January James Staudt, a White Plains lawyer representing the Church, tells the Journal News that the Harrison New York Temple will be build as soon as the Church is finished connecting the property to a sewer line on the other side of Hutchinson River Parkway. February 8 The Anchorage Alaska Temple, the Church's fifty-fourth operating temple, is rededicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley following its ten-month renovation project. February 22 The São Paulo Brazil Temple, the Church's seventeenth operating temple, is rededicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. “The Best Two Years”, a film version of the stage play “The Best Two Years of My Life”, is released and receives acclaim as one of the finest Mormon films ever. It depicts a missionary named Elder Rogers who is suffering a lapse of faith and motivation after troubles in his personal life, but is revitalized by the arrival of his overenthusiastic new companion Elder Calhoun. April 6 President Gordon B. Hinckley's wife, Marjorie Pay, dies from causes incident to age. May 28 President Gordon B. Hinckley meets with members in a hotel convention hall on the property of Euro Disney in Paris, France. Remarking on the upcoming dedication of the Manhattan New York Temple, he promises to look for a temple site in or near Paris and asks them to join their prayers with his to help them find a suitable property. June 23 In the evening, Elder Matthew Weirich is hiking with three other LDS missionaries in Morton National Park, Australia, when he slips and falls off a 230-foot cliff, the equivalent of a 23-story building. June 24 Around dawn, a rescue squad makes it down to Elder Weirich. They find him alive but only semiconscious. He is taken to the hospital where they discover that he only has some swelling in his brain and a broken nose, and he makes a full recovery. A police spokesman tells the Deseret News that the Boss must have been looking out for him. July 21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell dies of leukemia. After his death, the BYU Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts is renamed the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. July 31 Elder David B. Haight dies of causes incident to age, four days after attending the funeral of Neal A. Maxwell. August 8 Independent filmmakers release “Saints and Soldiers”, a World War II drama based on actual events about four American soldiers and one British struggling to return to Allied territory after the Malmedy Massacre. One of the Americans, Nathan “Deacon” Greer, is a Mormon from Arizona, and his convictions and inner demons profoundly affect his fellow soldiers. It wins fourteen Best Picture Awards at film festivals throughout the United States, and is an Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best First Feature and Cinematography. September 10 An angel Moroni statue is added to the spire of the Tokyo Japan Temple in front of hundreds of applauding onlookers. Although rain is forecast for today, the sky is beautiful and clear. October 7 Dieter F. Uchtdorf and David A. Bednar are ordained Apostles. December 31 A meetinghouse in Sandy, Utah is vandalized with numerous obscenities and derogatory remarks aimed at homosexuals, blacks, and Latter-day Saints spray-painted over a majority of its outside walls. 2005 LDS scholar Richard Bushman releases Joseph Smith – Rough Stone Rolling, the most thorough biography of Joseph Smith ever attempted. Though written from a believer's perspective, it presents a “warts and all” approach to his life that makes some members uncomfortable and even prompts some to leave the Church. Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? is republished despite having been thoroughly debunked years ago in Volume 2 of They Lie in Wait to Deceive. January 25 The same angel Moroni statue that survived the burning of the Apia Samoa Temple is placed atop the spire of the replacement temple, still under construction. July 26 The Salt Lake Tribune runs an article debunking the myth that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the world's fastest growing religion, and discusses its serious difficulties in retaining converts. This comes as a rude awakening to many members who are used to only faith-promoting statistics. August The Papeete Tahiti Temple closes for an extensive expansion and remodeling project. September 4 The Apia Samoa Temple, the Church's twenty-second operating temple which has been burned to the ground and rebuilt, is rededicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley, who also dedicated the original building. It reflects the design of the original but provides over four thousand additional square feet, higher quality building materials, and a more efficient floor plan. John Dehlin launches his “Mormon Stories” podcast, a liberal-leaning podcast about Mormon doctrine, history, and culture. In it he interviews orthodox members, unorthodox members, apostates, and occasionally non-Mormons about pressing issues. His first episode, “Kiddie Baptisms? My Mission Experience in Guatemala” features only himself. September 7 An angel Moroni statue is added to the spire of the Bern Switzerland Temple in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary. September 11 A comedy film called “Mobsters and Mormons” is released, telling the story of a Mafia member named Carmine “The Beans” Pasquale who enters the Witness Protection Program and is relocated with his family to a Provo-like town in Utah, where they must adjust to the culture shock and their Pharasaical neighbors with hilarious results. The film carries a message about loving one's neighbors and not being judgmental. October 5 Mormon author Stephanie Meyer publishes Twilight, a novel about an insecure teenage girl named Bella who falls in love with a vampire named Edward. It becomes one of the most popular novels since the Harry Potter series, especially among females. 2006 The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research launches the FAIR Wiki at fairmormon.org to more easily keep up with criticisms in real time. It soon surpasses the main site in popularity. The Doubleday edition of the Book of Mormon changes the introduction to say that Lamanites are “among” rather than the “principle” ancestors of the American Indians, changes some chapter headings and footnotes to emphasize the spiritual nature of the Lamanite curse rather than the skin change, and replaces the word “coinage” in one chapter heading with “monetary system”. These changes are based on current archeological knowledge and a better understanding of what the book actually claims. The Harrison New York Temple is quietly removed from the Church's official list of announced temples, probably owing to the construction of a temple in Manhattan. January 4 A missionary named Elder Morgan Young is shot by an unknown assailant in Chesapeake, Virginia, and dies in the hospital. March The Church attempts to purchase a huge tract of land outside of Versailles, France, owned by the Clerico family, about one-third of the small city of Villepreux, reportedly for a temple. The mayor of Villepreux says he prefers the Mormons to the other interested parties – an Arab emirate and a Russian – because of their morality and quality of investment. However, the Church does not succeed in acquiring the property. 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