The Cebu City Philippines Temple Towers Over the Surrounding Slums

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Watercolor and ink illustration. In the background, a white Latter-day Saint temple with a tall central spire topped by a golden statue of the angel Moroni stands on a landscaped rise under a pale blue sky. Wide stone steps lead up through a formal garden of red and pink flowers, flanked by tall palm trees and trimmed green hedges. In the foreground, a dense cluster of one- and two-story shanties presses up against the temple grounds, their walls patched together from weathered boards and corrugated metal, and their rusting roofs painted in fading reds, browns, blues, and greens. Tangled electrical wires run between the rooftops.

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A watercolor depiction of the Cebu City Philippines Temple — its tall spire and golden statue of the angel Moroni rising above manicured gardens and palm-lined walkways — set against a foreground of densely packed shanty housing with rusting, mismatched tin roofs. The contrast highlights a long-standing critique of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: that while the Church's wealth exceeds an estimated three hundred billion dollars, many of its members in countries like the Philippines live in deep poverty, but are still expected to pay a ten-percent of what little income they have as a condition of temple worthiness.

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