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On 20 June 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the USS Charleston sailed past Hagåtña and steamed into Apra Harbor. Captain Henry Glass who commanded the flotilla of four ships (the Charleston, the Peking, the Sydney and the Australia) was prepared to take the Spanish held island of Guam by force if necessary.
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30 years with Alee Shelter. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd, also called Good Shepherd Sisters, are a Catholic community of women religious founded by Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier in France in 1835.
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Creating understanding and harmony. The Muslim Association of Guam was founded in 1990 to meet the needs of the growing Muslim community in Guam, although membership has varied over the years from a high of more than 100 to the current total of about 50.
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Husband and wife John Collier and Laura Thompson started the Institute of Ethnic Affairs in 1945 as a nonprofit organization whose purpose was to search for solutions to problems within and between white and colored races, cultural minority groups, and dependent peoples at home and abroad. The Institute’s goal was to recommend administrative changes requiring governmental action.
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The Guam Buddhism Society, the non-profit community organization associated with Guam’s Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple, was founded in 1986 and has built the only traditional Mahayana Buddhist temple in Guam. The temple, located off Bello Road near the Guam International Airport, is a monumental blend of the Chinese palatial style and the style of a traditional Buddhist temple.
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Contemporary physical evidence of ancestral worship. The concept of ancestor worship, a central guiding principle in ancient Chamorro/CHamoru society, continues today in some general and some specific ways.
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The School Sisters of Notre Dame, commonly called the Notre Dame Sisters, are a consecrated community of religious women of the Catholic Church.
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The first Guam members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, belonged to a military servicemen’s group that began meeting in 1950. Both military and civilian members began meeting in 1951 in a building rented in Harmon.
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The Mercedarian Missionaries of Berriz are a Catholic missionary community of religious sisters who have been in the Mariana Islands since 1928, working first in Saipan and then in Guam beginning in 1962.
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The Lutheran Church of Guam was established in 1969 and is supported by the Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. The church first came to Guam in 1963 as the Lutheran Serviceman’s Center with a congregation consisting mainly of military personnel.
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