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    10 March 2023 - PORT VILA, Vanuatu
    News Release

    Port Vila Vanuatu Temple Groundbreaking News

    The Pacific Area Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the Port Vila Vanuatu Temple Groundbreaking will be held on Saturday, 8 April 2023.

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    Elder K. Brett Nattress, General Authority Seventy and President of the Pacific Area, will preside at the event.

    Attendance will be by invitation. 

    The groundbreaking event planned for early March was postponed due to severe weather conditions.

    The Port Vila Vanuatu Temple was announced in October 2020 by Church President Russell M. Nelson. This will be the small island nation’s first temple. Currently, the closest house of the Lord to Latter-day Saints in Vanuatu is the Suva Fiji Temple, which is over 700 miles away.

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