The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Friday that it will allow women to serve missions starting as young as 18, lowering the minimum age by one year and making the age ...

Once a mission territory itself, with a church dependent on European clergy and religious, Brazil has become a rich source of missionary vocations, with women religious comprising the vast majority of ...

At that time, the minimum age for missionaries was lowered from 21 to 19 for women and from 19 to 18 for men. That change, seen as a watershed moment for women in the church, led to applications for ...