From the surface, Ascension Island—a tiny volcanic outpost in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and the west coast of Africa—looks remote and isolated. But the small island is ...

has functioned as a hall for worshipping the sacred island from afar. The Shimbaru-Nuyama Mounded Tomb Group, located on a plateau overlooking the sea that stretches out towards Okinoshima, is ...

Its first full-time inhabitant was Elder Jimmie Hammon, “an itinerant preacher of the Gospel who shared the island with a ...