Delegates from the South Pacific attending the International Law and Religion Symposium at Brigham Young University this week had the opportunity to also visit the Humanitarian Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and attend a luncheon with senior leaders of the faith.
Sir Gibbs Salika, Deputy Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea; Hon Chester Borrows, Deputy Speaker of New Zealand Parliament; Theresa Potoi, Executive Director of the Samoan Law Reform Commission; Jeremy Stuparich, Public Policy Director for the Catholic Church in Australia; Kieran Walton, Private Secretary to Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Sydney Catholic Archdiocese; Professor Neville Rochow, an Australian Senior Counsel and law professor currently serving with his wife Penny as government relations specialists in Brussels for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Joshua Neoh, an Australian academic currently living in the United Kingdom, attended the International Law and Religion Symposium.
Senior Latter-day Saint leaders at the luncheon included President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counsellor in the Church’s First Presidency; Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the Presidency of the Seventy; Elder S. Gifford Nielsen, First Counsellor in the Church’s Pacific Area Presidency; Elder Craig A. Cardon, Second Counsellor in the Pacific Area Presidency; Elder Robert J. Dudfield of the Seventy; and Douglas Matsumori, Pacific Area Legal Counsel.
The International Law and Religion Symposium takes place at the J. Reuben Clark Law School on the campus of Brigham Young University each October. Judges, lawyers, policy advisers and other law and religion experts from around the world participate in the conference, tackling subjects such as this year’s theme: “Religious rights in a pluralistic world.”
Earlier in the day, symposium delegates toured the Latter-day Saints' Humanitarian Center in Salt Lake City.
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