{"id":348641,"date":"2021-07-26T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=348641"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T20:06:26","slug":"church-of-latter-day-saints-is-moving-to-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/church-of-latter-day-saints-is-moving-to-a-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Latter Day Saints is moving to a new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_348644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348644\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LATTER-DAY.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-348644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Church of Latter Day Saints held a groundbreaking ceremony at its new location along Katbon\u00a0Drive in San Vicente that was attended by church leaders and members.  (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Church of Latter Day Saints\u2019 40-year lease on its current church grounds in Chalan Lau Lau, Saipan, will soon expire, which means the church will be moving to a new location.<\/p>\n<p>In line with this, the church held a ground breaking ceremony that was attended by church leaders and members last Saturday at the new proposed location\u2014a peaceful neighborhood along Katbon Drive in San Vicente, overlooking the Lau Lau Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Latter Day Saints has a big congregation in this side of the Asia Pacific, as they have established churches  in Guam, Japan, and Saipan along with missionaries throughout Micronesia.<\/p>\n<p>According to a construction worker at the site, they are supposed to work and finish the project in a year. <\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, the Church of Latter Day Saints was introduced to the CNMI in 1944 to 1945 by American servicemen during World War II. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Latter Day Saints\u2019 40-year lease on its current church grounds in Chalan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":348643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}