The World - News from Aug. 8, 1985

The president of Brigham Young University pledged in writing to Israeli officials that the Utah school’s new Mormon center in Jerusalem will not try to convert Jews to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jeffrey R. Holland, president of the university, signed the document in the office of Jerusalem’s Mayor Teddy Kollek. “It is important for everyone to understand that this is not a missionary center,” Holland told reporters, adding, “We are not here to proselytize anyone.”