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</dl></div><p><strong>APIA, Samoa</strong>
  --- A claim that Mormons in Brisbane have banned the use of Samoan 
language from their services are not true, said Tupuola George Hunter. </p><p>“There
 is no policy in our church to ban any language from services,” said 
Tupuola, who is the public relations officer for the Church of Jesus 
Christ of Latter Days Saints in Samoa. </p><p>Their head office in Salt 
Lake City, Utah, United States, makes policy decisions and no language 
ban in services has been issued, Tupuola said. </p><p>He doesn’t believe
 lawyer Leulua’iali’i Olinda Woodroffe who told reporters that Mormons 
in Brisbane have banned the reading of the Samoan Bible or the use of 
Samoan in hymns and prayers. </p><p>Leulua’iali’i said she has been hired by Samoan Mormons in Brisbane to represent them in the matter. </p><p>“What she said on TV is wrong,” said Tupuola. </p><p>“I suspect that perhaps a Samoan stake mission was closed and it’s members have joined a palagi mission,” he said. </p>
<p>It has been a past practice of the church to close one stake mission in order to develop others. </p><p>“Samoan community stake missions are very active and more functional than palagi missions, Tupuola said. </p><p>He is unaware the language issue has reached the Federal Court in Australia as Leulua’iali’i stated. </p>
<p>Several elderly Mormons were surprised to hear of events in Brisbane.</p><a href="http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/samoa/2301/ban-on-samoan-language-in-brisbane-church-not-true/">http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/samoa/2301/ban-on-samoan-language-in-brisbane-church-not-true/</a><br clear="all">
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