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 ...

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 ...

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 ...