The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released artistic renderings for the exteriors of five temples in North America The site of the Buenos Aires City Center Argentina Temple has also been released An artistic rendering for the exterior of the Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple has been released The Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple will be built near the Mexico City Missionary Training Center at Tenayuca-Chalmita 828 Plans call for a two-story temple of approximately 29,000 square feet Church President Russell M. Nelson announced this house of the Lord during the April 2022 general conference. “Positive spiritual momentum increases as we worship in the temple and grow in our understanding of the magnificent breadth and depth of the blessings we receive there,” he said then Mexico is home to more than 1.5 million Latter-day Saints in nearly 1,900 congregations. Missionary work began in Mexico in 1875 An additional rendering has been released for the exterior of the Harrisburg Pennsylvania Temple This temple will be built on a 5.36-acre site located at 605 Rutherford Road Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 20,000 square feet President Nelson announced the Harrisburg Pennsylvania Temple during the April 2023 general conference “Jesus Christ is the reason we build temples,” he said Making covenants and receiving essential ordinances in the temple as well as seeking to draw closer to Him there will bless your life in ways no other kind of worship can.” Pennsylvania which is home to more than 53,000 Latter-day Saints was host to many significant events in the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Much of the Book of Mormon was translated in the town of Harmony and the first members of the Church were baptized in the Susquehanna River in May 1829 a rendering has been released for the exterior of the Jacksonville Florida Temple Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 29,000 square feet to be constructed on a 6.6-acre site located at 3323 Loretto Road President Russell M. Nelson announced this house of the Lord in October 2022 “I promise that increased time in the temple will bless your life in ways nothing else can,” he said before announcing 18 new houses of the Lord Missionaries first arrived in Florida in 1845 The state’s first congregation was created in 1897 in the Big Bend region of this southeastern state There are nearly 173,000 Latter-day Saints in over 270 congregations in Florida A rendering has also been released for the exterior of the Springfield Missouri Temple The Springfield Missouri Temple will be built on a portion of a 38-acre site located at 2720 East Farm Road #188 Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 29,000 square feet President Nelson announced this temple during the April 2023 general conference The Springfield Missouri Temple will be the third temple in the state, joining the Kansas City Missouri Temple and the St. Louis Missouri Temple Missouri is home to more than 80,000 Latter-day Saints in over 160 congregations and its surrounding counties were important gathering places for Latter-day Saints in the early days of the Church a rendering has been released for the exterior of the Winchester Virginia Temple This house of the Lord will be built on a 11.27-acre site located at 200 Merrimans Lane Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 30,000 square feet part of the East Coast of the United States is home to nearly 99,000 Latter-day Saints in 210 congregations The First Presidency has also announced the location of the Buenos Aires City Center Argentina Temple The temple will be built on a 1.56-acre site located at Avenida Cordoba Esquina Reconquista President Russell M. Nelson announced this temple during the October 2022 general conference “Let us never lose sight of what the Lord is doing for us now He is accelerating the pace at which we are building temples He is increasing our ability to help gather Israel,” President Nelson said then The Salta Argentina Temple was dedicated on June 16 Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles The Church’s history in Argentina goes back to 1923 when two German immigrants began preaching the gospel in Buenos Aires You are about to access Constant Contacts (http://visitor.constantcontact.com) You are now leaving a website maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints We provide the link to this third party's website solely as a convenience to you and security practices that differ from those on our website By referring or linking you to this website we do not endorse or guarantee this content If you would like to stay on the page you are viewing please click Cancel To download media files, please first review and agree to the Terms of Use Download a photo or video by clicking or tapping on it To download all photos or videos related to this article select the links at the bottom of each section President Russell M. Nelson announced the five new houses of the Lord in a general conference setting in either 2022 or 2023 The renderings were first published Monday, Dec. 16, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org More information for the temples — such as and groundbreaking dates for each — will be released later Every effort is made to construct temples in an expeditious manner; at times various reasons may delay a temple’s completion and dedication along with the site for the Winchester Virginia Temple President Nelson announced a temple for Harrisburg on April 2, 2023, in the concluding session of April 2023 general conference It was one of 15 locations he identified that day The house of the Lord will be the state’s third, joining the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple, which was dedicated in 2016, and the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Temple The state is home to more than 53,000 Church members in 13 stakes and nearly 110 congregations A dozen congregations were organized in the 1830s during The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ first decade before the gathering of early Church members in Ohio The Jacksonville Florida Temple rendering shows the planned single-story structure of approximately 29,000 square feet, which will be constructed on a 6.6-acre parcel at 3323 Loretto Road, Jacksonville, Florida. The site was first published on Feb. 20 earlier this year President Nelson announced Jacksonville and 17 other new temple locations at the close of the October 2022 general conference In Florida, the Church has five total temples dedicated, under construction or in planning. The state’s first — the Orlando Florida Temple — was dedicated 30 years ago, in October 1994, by President Howard W. Hunter. It closed in July 2024 for extensive renovations The state’s other operating houses of the Lord are in Fort Lauderdale and Tallahassee, the latter being dedicated earlier this month. The fifth in planning will be built in Tampa Missionaries first arrived and stayed briefly in Florida in 1845 with the Church’s first congregation in the state created in 1897 in the Big Bend area of northern Florida the state is home to nearly 173,000 Saints comprising 32 stakes and more than 280 congregations With the rendering showing the two-story, 29,000-square-foot house of the Lord to be built on the grounds of the current Mexico Missionary Training Center and the Church’s former Benemérito del las Americas school the Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple will be located at Tenayuca-Chalmita 828 With Church missionary efforts in Mexico dating back to 1875 the country is home to more than 1.5 million members comprising 230 stakes and nearly 1,880 congregations The rendering of the Springfield Missouri Temple shows the planned single-story edifice of approximately 29,000 square feet, which will be built on a portion of a 38-acre site located at 2720 E. Farm Road No. 188, Springfield, Missouri. The site was released June 22 earlier this year Missouri is home to two operating houses of the Lord — the St. Louis Missouri Temple, which was dedicated in 1997, and the Kansas City Missouri Temple The state provided key gathering places — such as Independence, Missouri, and surrounding counties — for Latter-day Saints in the Church’s early days in the 1830s more than 80,000 members of the Church reside in Missouri and comprise 19 stakes in nearly 165 congregations The rendering of the Winchester Virginia Temple showed a projected single-story, 30,000-square-foot building, to be built on a 11.27-acre site at 200 Merrimans Lane, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. The site was released on Oct along with the site for the Harrisburg Pennsylvania Temple President Nelson announced the temple for Winchester on April 2 at the same time announcing the aforementioned Harrisburg and Springfield temples and 13 other new locations for future houses of the Lord The Winchester temple is one of three houses of the Lord in the state. The Richmond Virginia Temple was dedicated in 2023, and a temple in planning for Roanoke was announced that same year The Church has nearly 99,000 members comprising 22 stakes and 210 congregations in Virginia Premium Content is available to subscribers only. Please login here to access content or go here to purchase a subscription missionaries in the Mexico MTC travel around 8 miles through busy metropolitan streets — a one-way journey of half an hour by vehicle — to attend the temple The new house of the Lord in Mexico City will eliminate this travel time almost entirely The Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple was announced on April 3, 2022, by President Russell M. Nelson Details about the temple’s groundbreaking have not yet been released Architectural renderings of the house of the Lord show an off-white exterior surrounded by tall A multilevel tower with rectangular windows and a spire stands above the center of the building Grass fields and flower gardens will adorn the grounds Tenayuca-Chalmita 828Colonia Zona EscolarGustavo A This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page RELIGION 12:34 PM | Updated: 6:24 pm An artist's rendering of the Fort Worth Texas Temple BY MICHAEL HOUCK  SALT LAKE CITY — The locations for six previously announced temples for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were released Monday According to the Church’s announcement on its newsroom website The Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple will be built near the Mexico City Missionary Training Center at Tenayuca-Chalmita 828 Map showing the location of the Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple The temple is planned to be two stories and about 29,000 square feet with four more temples planned in the greater Mexico City area The second announced Mexico temple is a single-story temple that’s about 9,300 square feet on a 3.87-acre site Map showing location of the San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple This is the Church’s first temple in San Luis Potosí Another 23 are planned to be built in the future The São Paulo East Brazil Temple is planned to be a two-story temple at about 46,050 square feet on a 10.7-acre site on v Map showing the location of the São Paulo East Brazil Temple with an additional three under construction The Fort Worth Texas Temple is planned to be built on a 9.37-acre site North of SW Hulen Street and Greenridge Drive It will be a single-story temple of about 30,000 square feet This will be Fort Worth’s first temple There are currently eight temples announced The Knoxville Tennessee Temple will be built on a 4.99-acre site at 13001 Kingston Pike It’s planned to be a single-story temple at about 30,000 square feet Map showing the location of the Knoxville Tennessee Temple Tennessee has two other temples in operation in Memphis and Nashville This will be Knoxville’s first temple The Tampa Florida Temple will be built on a 16.2-acre site near an existing meetinghouse at 4806 Bell Shoals Road This will be a single-story temple at about 30,000 square feet Map showing the location of the Tampa Florida Temple There are four other temples in Florida currently in operation Follow @KSLMichaelHouck Monson made the groundbreaking announcement of lowered minimum age requirements for missionary service One change resulting from this revelation that many outside of Mexico may be unaware of is the transition of Benemerito de las Americas in Mexico City from a large LDS school into a new missionary training center. Barbara E. Morgan assistant professor of LDS Church history at Brigham Young University recounted the history of the school at the Mormon History Association meeting June 7 to its final graduating class of June of 2013 Benemerito de las Americas has played a critical role in and has been greatly affected by the history of the church," Morgan said McKay noted in 1957 that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico needed better educational opportunities Benemerito de las Americas was the flagship school with over 2,000 students at its height Both native Mexicans and American ecclesiastical and governmental leaders made up the advisory board Benemerito de las Americas educated elementary students high school students and teacher prep students It was later transitioned to a high school only Students would live on campus in dormitories so they could have family like experiences such as “prayer other family activities to provide the youth with personal attention and mentoring from active Latter-day Saint couples,” explained Morgan The school got its name from Benito Juarez a celebrated Mexican hero and politician: "By adopting his name they were showing appreciation for a great ancestry and common heritage," Morgan said It also differentiated the school from other private schools often named after Catholic saints Morgan explained how students came from all over Mexico This continued through many years as the school grew and changed as needed and directed by church officials Over 23,000 students attended Benemerito de las Americas throughout the years it was announced that the school would become a new MTC for which we are breaking ground today is destined to become a great Spanish-speaking cultural center Its influence will reach far beyond the valley of Mexico Hundreds of thousands of people will come here and the nation will be edified in its education Emily W. Jensen covered the LDS online world for five years. She continues to track online developments and discussions. Email: ejensen@deseretnews.com with the 90-acre campus and its scores of buildings to promptly reopen as the new location of an expanded Mexico Missionary Training Center Church leaders saw the change as critical to help accommodate the sudden surge of new missionaries spawned by the October 2012 general conference announcement of lowering the ages when young men and women begin serving as full-time missionaries “We need an MTC immediately; we need it now,” said Elder Holland at the meeting it would take us three years and millions of dollars to construct Elder Nelson followed, pronouncing Jan. 29 as an important day in Church history, moving from the hundreds educated annually at Benemérito to the training of many thousands of missionaries “Many of them will come from other countries,” he said They will be leaders throughout the entire world “This hallowed ground where we sit tonight will become more sacred with each passing year,” Elder Nelson continued higher and holier purposes will be served in the future “Now I don’t know what the future will bring higher and higher to bless the lives of generations yet unborn This sacred place will help the country of Mexico to become all that God intends it to become it will be a blessing to the entire world.” higher and holier purposes” and “a blessing to the entire world.” Those prophetic declarations from the man who now leads the Church of Jesus Christ describe the Centro De Capacitación Misional México the Spanish name found on the Mexico Missionary Training Center’s large entryway sign whitewashed letter “B” on the hillside behind it serving as not only a visual backdrop the Mexico MTC —  or CCM Mexico — has become the Church’s second-largest center for missionaries trained and its largest in property size The training center both receives from and sends out missionaries throughout the Western Hemisphere and across the globe And the Mexico MTC is one of the key reasons why the Church has been able to close five smaller MTCs since early 2019 “When President Nelson announced the change and came here to make the change from the Benemérito School to the MTC the Spirit has been here ever since,” said President Timothy M “We have received missionaries from all over the world — Asia The impact of those missionaries is going to be generational and just a fantastic change from a school with limited impact to a worldwide impact.” “One of the great feelings that you have when you go to Mexico is the understanding of how long the Church has been there,” said Elder Brent H. Nielson a General Authority Seventy and executive director of the Missionary Department and some of our Mexican Saints there are eight- and nine-generation members It feels like this is a place where the Church has been for a long time and these members are some of our most faithful members on the face of the Earth was to give way to a much-larger Mexico MTC than the smaller one operating near the Mexico City Mexico Temple Capacity at the then-existing MTC — which dated back to the late 1970s — had been upwards of 150 missionaries at a time; attendance projections for the expanded MTC could exceed 1,000 “I believe God knew this day would come the day we broke ground for this school,” Elder Holland said at the Jan to be in the absolute vanguard of this work and be the only place God and His leaders could turn to further this work saying the success of 18-year-olds in Mexico being called as missionaries — ongoing since 1999 — had been a significant consideration in the decision to make the age change worldwide Less than five months after the announcement Mexican law requires the burning of its flag so the flag-burning ceremony symbolized Benemérito’s end of academic activities and the start of the property’s new role Out of the ashes and from the property arose something greater — as prophesied Benemérito accounted for some 23,000 graduates in its 49-year history the Mexico MTC has trained well more than 30,000 missionaries who have spent anywhere from three to nine weeks on the campus before departing throughout the Americas and beyond Missionary Department personnel — such as Shawn Cates the Mexico MTC’s first director of training and operations who would oversee the training of the MTC’s teachers — arrived in May 2013 initiating the transition while allowing Benemérito to conclude its academic year They witnessed — and empathized with — teachers staff and students saddened by the school’s closing and I cried so hard — it was such a beautiful thing,” recalled Cates who now serves as the Missionary Department’s manager of worldwide finding With the first missionaries scheduled to arrive 10 days after the June 14 graduation to see what people were able to do to make that happen.” While the property and buildings remained much the same besides some necessary remodeling and enhancements operations for an MTC differed considerably from a school while a missionary training center is like a mini-village “We had to hire about 100 new people who knew nothing about how an MTC operates,” Cates said “We had about a month and a half to ramp up all these people and help them get a vision and realize what we were trying to do before the first missionaries showed up at the end of June.” Working at the Mexico MTC from May 2013 through December 2013 Polo initially brought down MTC teachers from Provo for six to 12 weeks at a time “There was this feeling of ‘This is our MTC and we’ll do anything to be here,’ ” recalled Polo now the Missionary Department’s assistant administrative director of MTCs “That was when I just knew ‘this is going to work out and they don’t need me here.’ ” Once Benemérito classes concluded, the move from the existing MTC campus to the new one began The push to move furniture and allocate and arrange office space and classrooms  went down to the wire as the staff had a matter of days to get ready “The night before the first missionaries arrived we were changing the sign from the school out to the Mexico Missionary Training Center,” Cates said “We finished that at about 1 in the morning before they got there.” And the school library — now named for President Thomas S as most Mexico MTC administrative and classroom buildings bear the names of latter-day prophets — got last-minute attention “We were clearing out the library books and everything and the bookshelves,” Cates added “That was going to be their reception hall.” they came — first a young local sister missionary the first missionaries arriving at the newly expanded training center were Latter-day Saints from Mexico the nation that sacrificed an education center for its youth in exchange for a training center for missionaries from all over the world The welcoming MTC staff included many who had been Benemérito employees “You could see tears in their eyes,” Cates said and at the same time a little sad realizing This has happened.’ It was a temple-like experience it was extremely spiritual to be a part of that We all felt like it was a historical moment.” the Mexico MTC primarily trained missionaries from Mexico who would serve in one of the several dozen missions in that country the Mexico MTC could accommodate considerably more missionaries so it was determined that not only could it host missionaries from Mexico and throughout Latin America but also help lessen the load of missionaries learning Spanish at the flagship Provo Missionary Training Center missionaries who were called from the United States and Canada to proselytize in the Spanish language in either of those two countries could go to Mexico City to be trained and to learn Spanish and then return for their service Both training programs still continue today “That has relieved a lot of the pressure that we have in Provo,” Elder Nielson said “and it has also allowed us to give them a cultural experience in Mexico so that they can get a feeling for the Hispanic cultures they serve in Mexico.” And a timely decision by the Mexican government helped facilitate bringing in new trainees to the Mexico MTC from other countries Mexico adjusted the requirements for short-term visas into the country allowing missionaries from North American and many other nations to enter without a visa and to stay up to 180 days — well over the three to nine weeks needed to train missionaries All a training missionary needed was a passport a return ticket and no visa — a welcome relief to the Missionary Department “Visas are so expensive,” Elder Nielson said “We are all day every day applying for visas for missionaries all around the world fly back — and it is just a three-and-a-half-hour flight (from Salt Lake City) The cultural experience of training in Mexico with native speakers is a bonus for missionaries from the United States and Canada who recently moved as director of international MTCs to area mission specialist within the Missionary Department “What better way to prepare them not only to learn the language,” he said be among the culture and be among the missionaries who are from the places or going to the places or have connection with the people that they’re going to meet on their mission and teach.” As missionaries started to be assigned to the Mexico MTC for training, the numbers included children of former Benemérito staff as well as former students themselves, some who had graduated just months earlier. “During its almost 50 years, Benemérito de las Americas blessed the lives of tens of thousands of members in Mexico through its secular and religious education programs. Graduates from the school served as bedrock for past and current Church leadership in the country,” said Elder John C. Pingree Jr. a General Authority Seventy and counselor in the Mexico Area presidency “When it was announced the Benemérito would be closed and a new Mexico MTC would be opened the loss of the school was painful for many in Mexico the faithful Saints here readily accepted the school’s new higher purpose to prepare missionaries to gather Israel in preparation for the Second Coming of the Savior the current director of training and operations at the Mexico MTC said it was very difficult for local members to initially accept the change from the popular “But quickly they received a testimony of the blessing and the power of having a bigger MTC in Mexico to bless many people in the world,” he said underscoring Elder Nelson’s promise of increasing sacredness each passing year “I have seen this; I witness of this prophetic promise Every time a family arrives with their son or their daughter I can feel — for this reason — this place is more and more sacred because of the sacrifice and love of the people.” Perla Velazquez is one who can claim a full range of campus experiences — a Benemérito student as a teenager a young missionary training at the Mexico MTC and now a teaching supervisor there “I feel gratitude for being in this beautiful place I remember this place was to prepare people for conversion — not just for the missionary training but before I feel this place is prepared in order to help others receive conversion.” With the Mexico MTC’s continued growth and success over its first five years and its untapped capacity to house upwards of 1,200 missionaries, the Missionary Department found it could further streamline its operations and training by closing five smaller MTCs in 2019 and 2020 — including in Chile Dominican Republic and Guatemala — and having missionaries who would have been trained there instead sent to Mexico City Elder Nielson said that while the average person thinks trimming the number of MTCs worldwide is the result of a dwindling missionary force the Church in fact has some 4,000 missionaries more this year than last the Missionary Department’s administrative director of MTCs said the consolidations into the Mexico MTC had several benefits “One is significant cost savings to the Church Another is missionaries who come together have this experience of singing ‘Called to Serve’ with several hundred missionaries instead of 20 or 30 as might have been the case at smaller MTCs,” he said underscoring how missionaries could feel a part of a larger global force and how centralized training and operations helps ensure a consistent missionary experience no matter if they attend an MTC in Mexico or Utah One major difference in Mexico is the MTC’s expansive property enclosed 90 acres of the former Benemérito campus including 50 multiroom casitas or small residences for elders several apartment-sized dormitory buildings for sisters and plentifully spaced administrative and classroom buildings throughout Compare that to the 35 acres of the Provo campus or the less-than-two acres of the towering MTC complex in São Paulo many of course make the trip from the airport to the Mexico MTC which is culture shock just to drive through and see Mexico City,” Elder Nielson said “But when they arrive at the MTC and they’re welcomed by all these wonderful Mexican members Added Mills: “While it is right in the middle of this loud you go onto the property and the gates close behind you The square footage “blows all of the other MTCs out of the water,” said Polo practicing and role-playing among palm trees lush lawns and the squawking monk parakeets “It’s a unique feeling that missionaries probably don’t feel confined — there’s open air Getting to Mexico City from across Mexico as well as the United States and other nations isn’t much of a problem The nation’s capital is served by plenty of nonstop flights “There are times of the year when we have lots of missionaries going down where almost every passenger on the plane is a missionary on their way to the Mexico MTC,” said Mills of the SLC-MEX route “One of the flight attendants who is on that flight every week told me the story once of a flight landing and as they were taxiing toward the terminal the missionaries began to sing ‘Called to Serve.’ ” The Mexico MTC staff and Missionary Department work to dispel the many misconceptions that uninformed members have about the training experience in Mexico City ranging from worries about missionary safety in a rough borough to concerns about food or water missionaries will complain to others back home that the food has made them sick when in reality a combination of a new diet new meal routines and possible side effects of anxiety and stress could cause such ailments “I think the members should know that their sons and daughters will be well cared for here,” said President Olson We have a full-service campus with a health clinic staff on hand for maintenance and a wonderful instruction team that is very competent and able to teach them not only the language but the way to teach the gospel clearly and effectively expanded MTC cafeteria for its first seven months and returned every time she makes training visits Polo said the food “is delicious — I loved it,” adding “I wish moms knew that the food is great — there’s a variety and (missionaries) are well taken care of.” Said Steinagel of the property being enveloped by high wire-topped concrete walls and monitored by 24/7 security: “The missionaries are very safe — that’s the priority above everything else “We’re able to meet the missionaries’ needs either it be with special food needs or with the clinical and medical help that we have there and all of the different support from the area office,” preparing to serve a Spanish assignment in Arizona offered advice to missionaries coming to the Mexico MTC: “Absorb everything — the culture It’s a great blessing to be able to have teachers from Mexico with that Latin culture being able to teach us used “bittersweet” to describe the conclusion of her six weeks of training before leaving to serve in Chile “You’re taught a lot of information within that time period and the people you meet here are super beautiful it’s kind of sad but very exciting to move on and to take the things you’ve learned and to implement them in your mission.” the Mexico MTC has offered a three-week missionary training program for native Spanish speakers With the move to having North American elders and sisters train in Mexico City the six-week training and Spanish language program for English speakers was added With the recent closures of other smaller MTCs the Mexico MTC has expanded its training repertoire The training of missionaries speaking Haitian Creole — previously done at the Dominican Republic MTC — has moved to Mexico requiring teachers to be hired and relocated to Mexico City the nine-week training in Q’eqchi’ — a Mayan language spoken in communities in Guatemala and Belize — for native Spanish speakers came from the now-closed Guatemala MTC “We’re beginning to look at the possibilities of being able to train missionaries in the Mexico MTC in other languages — for example “Would it be possible for a Latino missionary who only speaks Spanish to come to Mexico and be taught French from Spanish trying to prepare ourselves for that type of event so that they could serve in a French-speaking mission Another likely addition would be ESL — English as a second language — for Spanish speakers called to serve an English assignment “Are there opportunities for us to teach other languages at this MTC,” asked Elder Nielson “so that we can open up the world to other cultures that can go serve in other places?” Mills observed the blend of training programs — North American missionaries learning Spanish interacting with native speakers from Mexico and other Latin American nations in their own training “A takeaway was this sense of connection between all these missionaries “There was just this feeling of connection unity and the purpose they felt as missionaries.” And it’s a feeling of the Spirit throughout just with the change in environment,” she said they’re going to enjoy the companionship of the other missionaries they’re going to find that the teachers are wonderful they’ll learn to teach the gospel with the Spirit.” echoes that expression: “We can feel the love of the Lord we were told we would learn that we are cared for by Him to have reverence and to stay within the limits of the rules,” he said “And I have learned that as I do that while I am here who for three years witnessed the transformation from school to missionary training center puts a grander perspective on the “an oasis in the desert” tag given to the site and carrying over from its Benemérito roots to its current Mexico MTC expansion to what the future holds in store at the 90-acre property “It’s an oasis among one of the largest cities in the world and every day miracles are happening there and missionaries’ hearts are changing there is something incredibly special happening and whomever is there has a front-row seat to one of the most amazing miracles that we see on Planet Earth it’s missionaries preparing to go out and change others’ hearts.” The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released the site locations for six new temples — three in the United States The locations were announced Monday, Oct. 31, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org. The Fort Worth Texas Temple — a single-story building of approximately 30,000 square feet — will be built on a 9.37-acre site southeast of SW Hulen Street and Greenridge Drive in Burleson President Nelson announced a temple for Fort Worth in October 2021 general conference an exterior rendering of the Fort Worth Texas Temple was also released the latter in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area The location of the Knoxville Tennessee Temple will be a 4.99-acre site at 13001 Kingston Pike in Farragut President Nelson announced a temple for Knoxville during April 2022 general conference The temple will be the third in Tennessee, home to more than 55,000 Church members in over 110 congregations. Dedicated and operating temples are in Nashville and Memphis. The Tampa Florida Temple — planned to be a single-story edifice of approximately 30,000 square feet — will be built on a 16.2-acre site adjacent to an existing meetinghouse located at 4806 Bell Shoals Road in Valrico President Nelson announced a temple for Tampa in April 2022 general conference To be built on the grounds of the current Mexico Missionary Training Center and the Church’s former Benemérito del las Americas school the Mexico City Benemérito Temple will be located at Tenayuca-Chalmita 828 the country is home to nearly 1.5 million members comprising more than 1,800 congregations With plans for a single-story temple of approximately 9,300 square feet the San Luis Potosí Temple will be built on a 3.87-acre site at Arboleda 100 Fraccionamiento del Parque in namesake city President Nelson announced a temple for San Luis Potosí in April 2022 general conference The São Paulo East Brazil Temple — planned as two-story building of approximately 46,050 square feet — will be built on a 10.7-acre site located at Av President Nelson announced the São Paulo East temple — the city’s second — in October 2020 general conference Brazil is home to 1.5 million Latter-day Saints in more than 2,100 congregations with missionary work in the South American country dating back to 1928 Locations for six temples in the Americas have been released Four of the temples were first announced by Church President Russell M The other two were announced in October 2020 and October 2021 The Mexico City Benemérito Mexico Temple  will be built near the Mexico City Missionary Training Center at Tenayuca-Chalmita 828 Plans call for a two-story temple of approximately 29,000 square feet. This will be the city’s second temple. Four additional temples were recently announced for the greater Mexico City area The San Luis Potosí Mexico Temple will be built on a 3.87-acre site located at Arboleda 100 Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 9,300 square feet Mexico is home to nearly 1.5 million Latter-day Saints in over 1,800 congregations The São Paulo East Brazil Temple will be built on a 10.7-acre site located at Av Plans call for a two-story temple of approximately 46,050 square feet The Fort Worth Texas Temple will be built on a 9.37-acre site located North of SW Hulen Street and Greenridge Drive Texas is home to more than 371,000 Latter-day Saints in nearly 740 congregations The Knoxville Tennessee Temple will be built on a 4.99-acre site located at 13001 Kingston Pike Tennessee is home to more than 55,000 Latter-day Saints in over 110 congregations. Tennessee has two other temples in operation in the cities of Memphis and Nashville The Tampa Florida Temple will be built on a 16.2-acre site adjacent to an existing meetinghouse located at 4806 Bell Shoals Road Renderings for the other five temples will be made available at a later date Latter-day Saints consider temples the house of the Lord and the most sacred places of worship on earth Temples differ from the Church’s meetinghouses (chapels) All are welcome to attend Sunday worship services and other weekday activities at local meetinghouses The primary purpose of temples is for faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ to participate in sacred ceremonies and proxy baptisms on behalf of deceased ancestors who did not have the opportunity to be baptized while living an announcement was made that the Church-owned high school Benemérito de las Américas in Mexico City would be converted into a missionary training center Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles pulled out a copy of the Doctrine and Covenants and read Section 88:73: "Behold "is what we are seeing in an unprecedented way." He pointed to a graph on his desk reflecting the surge of missionary applications in recent months following President Thomas S Monson's historic announcement that changed the age at which young men and young women may begin missionary service Elder Nelson and his colleague in the Twelve 29 meetings at the Benemérito campus where the plans for the future MTC were announced The change from school to MTC is expected to occur following the end of the Benemérito school year in June 2013 The new training center will accommodate newly called missionaries to Mexico and to other Spanish-speaking assignments throughout the world The Church's decision to convert the school into an MTC "comes at a very fortunate time as the influx of new missionaries will exceed our capacity at existing missionary training centers," said Elder Nelson in a Church News interview sisters and couples who will serve not only in Mexico Even missionaries from the United States who have been called to Spanish-speaking assignments in their own country may possibly be trained in Mexico City will continue to provide Spanish-language training for many missionaries The first group of new missionaries will likely report to the new MTC in July It's expected that some 150 missionaries will make up the MTC's maiden "class," followed by gradual increases in numbers The capacity of the new MTC may exceed 1,500 the Benemérito de las Américas facility has functioned as a boarding school — so dormitories and other needed infrastructure are already in place Elder Nelson said he and his fellow leaders are grateful for how news of the change was received by the Mexican members — including the Benemérito administrators He also praised the "vital participation" of a variety of leaders including the Mexico Area Presidency — Elder Daniel L executive director of the Missionary Department He also noted the work of Bishop Gérald Caussé first counselor in the Presiding Bishopric; Elder Carl B an emeritus Seventy and president of the Mexico Missionary Training Center; Chad H assistant commissioner of Church Education; and Kelend I director of International Missionary Training Centers "We are witnessing a historic day in the Church," said Elder Nelson in the Jan 29 meeting at the Benemérito campus attended by local Church leaders and school administrators Proceedings were also transmitted by satellite to other chapels throughout Mexico A remarkable number of young people are answering calls to serve requiring the additional Missionary Training Center The future MTC will prepare many of those new missionaries "Thousands of young people will come here from many nations," he said In a subsequent meeting with the Benemérito students Elder Holland acknowledged the students' love for the storied Benemérito de las Américas He assured the young people it was appropriate for them to feel bittersweet about the closing of their beloved school He also spoke of the tremendous opportunities for Church growth that will be associated with the recent surge of missionaries and the new MTC in Mexico City "We will see growth," added Elder Daniel Johnson "like never seen before in the history of the Church." jswensen@desnews.com MEXICO CITY — Surrounded by sparkling Christmas lights and gold and red holiday decorations at the Church’s Mexico City Missionary Training Center, President M. Russell Ballard testified of the “privilege of declaring to the world that Jesus Christ is the Savior and the redeemer of all mankind.” I hope you will ponder as you read His teachings,” he told missionaries on Friday “May the Lord bless you to come to feel a relationship The meeting was the first held during a busy ministry weekend for President Ballard, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Accompanied by Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles President Ballard was also scheduled to participate in leadership training and member meetings in Mexico City — the largest city in North America Maneuvering traffic in the metropolitan area populated by 22 million people is humbling Sustained to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1976 and then as an Apostle in 1985 President Ballard is the Church’s longest-serving general authority “I don’t know of anything in my ministry that I’ve enjoyed more over these almost 47 years than being with the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” said the 94-year-old Church leader After surveying the Church’s 90-acre campus — previously Benemérito de las Américas high school — President Ballard told the missionaries they are on the “steppingstone” of the greatest experience they will have in their life: “to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.” President Ballard served a mission in the British Isles in 1948 — just years after the end of World War II There at Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park President Ballard offered a 90-second talk That night he knelt in prayer and promised the Lord to never waste another opportunity to testify of the Savior again “You have the authority and power of God to teach our Father’s children,” he told the missionaries Speaking of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ President Ballard added that what “we know and what we have” is greatest of all blessings “Your message — and my message — is the most glorious message that anyone could possibly receive at this time,” he said “I think we are at a day and time when our missionaries … need to be a little more bold I think you need to be a little more willing to talk to people “you are putting people on the path to eternal life,” he said “In this missionary training center we are preparing you for your missions — wherever you are going to be scattered into the world — that you can do great and marvelous things in teaching baptizing and confirming more and more of our Heavenly Father’s children into the only true and living Church on the face of the earth — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Elder Stevenson also spoke of missionary service He shared a photograph of himself receiving a call to labor in Japan in 1974 — just about the same time President Ballard began his service as president of the Church’s Toronto Ontario Mission He also shared a photograph taken two years later as he was leaving his last area of his mission “I have had the opportunity to look back now on my mission experience,” he said “And I don’t know if a day goes by that I don’t have some thought about my two years of service as a young missionary.” who serves on the Church’s Missionary Executive Council spoke to the missionaries about using the missionary toolkit — the scriptures “Preach my Gospel,” and the booklet containing missionary standards “We diligently search the scriptures to understand the truth,” he said “We feast on them because they open the door to revelation and show us what we need to do and become.” President Ballard was “the architect” of “Preach My Gospel” — introduced to the world at the Church’s mission leadership seminar in 2004 the year Elder Stevenson and his wife began their service as mission leaders in Japan The learnings from “Preach My Gospel” are “essential” and will bless missionaries every day of their life And “every time you are obedient to the rules and guidelines that you find in your handbook Elder Stevenson closed his remarks with his testimony of “Jesus Christ all together make the greatest gift that our loving Heavenly Father could give us.” Elder Sean Douglas — participating with his wife Sister Ann Douglas — conducted the meeting and shared brief remarks “This is a day where you will receive many answers to prayers,” he told the missionaries “Open your ears that you may hear and your hearts that you may feel.” studied the scriptures and his patriarchal blessing — which counsels him to focus on the words of prophets and apostles He took three pages of notes as he listened to their talks President Ballard’s and Elder Stevenson’s words were not coincidental listened to the devotional she felt the importance of her service as a missionary said being taught by two apostles made him feel special “I felt like the meeting was just for me.” the Church’s first service missionary from Mexico works at the Missionary Training Center reception center and found great peace from the meeting “Being a missionary is a blessing and a privilege,” she said said it is important that the gathering occurred at the Mexico Missionary Training Center — “a very holy place Once Benemérito de las Américas high school where generations of leaders in Mexico were educated the campus was converted to the MTC to respond to the historic surge in the number of Latter-day Saint missionaries after the Church lowered the age of eligibility of service for elders and sisters Today the training center not only prepares elders sisters and couples who will serve in Mexico Sister Marcela Taylor Pratt Sanchez graduated from Benemérito in 1978 and now serves on the campus with her husband Her service “is like connecting with my history Daniel Taylor Pierce — then superintendent of Church schools in Mexico — and her grandfather Taylor — then president of the Northern Mexican Mission — were instrumental in helping the Church buy the property for the school During April 2022, President Russell M. Nelson announced plans to build a temple on the grounds President Ballard and Elder Stevenson visited the site of the future temple Leticia Mera of Tula, Mexico, said she felt her heart stop when she heard the announcement made possible such a huge blessing,” she said The Church first sent missionaries to Mexico in 1875, the year after Daniel W. Jones, Henry Brizzee and Meliton Gonzalez Trejo started translating the Book of Mormon into Spanish The Tula Mexico Stake was organized in 1975 The Tula Mexico Temple was announced by President Nelson on Oct The Tula Mexico Temple will be built in or near Tula The site location and architectural rendering have not yet been released Tula Mexico At the conclusion of the April 2022 general conference, President Russell M. Nelson announced 17 new temple locations — bringing to 100 the total number of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that he has announced in the four-plus years as President of the Church “The adversary never sleeps,” President Nelson said “There will always be opposition to the truth I repeat my urging from this morning to do those things that will increase your positive spiritual momentum to keep you moving forward through whatever challenges and opportunities come.” Positive spiritual momentum increases through worshiping in the temple “Counter worldly ways by focusing on the eternal blessings of the temple.” The 40-plus Church temples currently under construction and the 17 newly announced temples will bless lives on both sides of the veil Mary Dixon+1 (347) 840-1242mdixon@wcs.org Stephen Sautner T: +1 (718) 220-3682C: +1 (908) 247-2585 ssautner@wcs.org John DelaneyT: +1 (718) 220-3275 C: +1 (347) 675-2294 jdelaney@wcs.org Steve FairchildT: +1 (914) 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pictures 2024 – The New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) over 30 years ago at an approximate cost of $800 million Illegal cattle trafficking has fueled the parasite’s rapid resurgence across Central America with the recent confirmation of the first screwworm case in Mexico on November 23 Department of Agriculture (USDA) has temporarily halted live cattle imports from Mexico underscoring the severe risks to livestock The following statement was released by Jeremy Radachowsky Wildlife Conservation Society’s Regional Director for Mesoamerica:  “Evidence directly links illegal cattle trafficking to the screwworm’s resurgence Major screwworm outbreak hotspots closely mirror cattle smuggling routes identified in InSight Crime's 2022 report, “Cash Cows – The Inner Workings of Cattle Trafficking from Central America to Mexico.”  “Illegal cattle trade in Mesoamerica the southern border of North America extending to the Pacific coast of Central America follows transboundary routes starting in Nicaragua and passing through Honduras and Guatemala before infiltrating Mexico's food supply chain and reaching as far as the U.S This unregulated cross-border movement has created a rapid corridor for the parasite allowing it to travel nearly 700 miles—from the Nicaragua-Honduras border to Catazajá Mexico—in just two and a half months.  “This swift spread endangers millions of animals and threatens the livelihoods of ranchers across the region cattle smuggling creates the ideal conditions for transboundary transmission of diseases The screwworm itself can infect any warm-blooded animal illegal cattle ranching in Central America drives deforestation and facilitates crimes such as drug trafficking and money laundering all under the pretense of satisfying global beef demand.  Over one million Mexican cattle producers are calling for immediate action to stop illegal cattle crossings across the Guatemala-Mexico border the screwworm's unchecked spread could cause catastrophic economic losses “WCS urges the United States and Mexico to implement the following measures immediately: Past unified efforts have shown we can eradicate the New World screwworm but the window to contain this outbreak is closing rapidly If the parasite establishes itself in Mexico it could lead to decades of costly eradication efforts—with expenses potentially surpassing previous campaigns and largely borne by U.S if smuggling routes remain open and unaddressed continually undermining eradication efforts coordinated international action can protect biodiversity save billions in public spending and livestock losses and prevent a crisis from spiraling out of control.” went 2-2 at the prestigious Defense Soap Super 32 Tournament in Greensboro Enterprise High senior wrestlers Kameron Stiffler and Kody Sigmon made their mark in their final Super 32 meet this past weekend in Greensboro So too did Enterprise’s girls wrestler Taimane Benemerito Stiffler went 2-2 against the rugged competition of the Super 32 one of the top off-season national folkstyle tournaments Two Wiregrass female wrestlers from the Patriots Wrestling Club in Dothan also competed at the prestigious meet but both Teegan Robinson and Cote Spaulding went 0-2 an Enterprise AHSAA state champion last year wanted to make some noise after going 1-2 two years ago and winless in two matches last year “A way better improvement than last year,” Stiffler said “I got a couple of wins out there and got to wrestle a bunch of different people from a bunch of different states.” half joking but also serious about his pre-meet goals so I wanted to go out and wrestle and however I did Stiffler finished in top third of the 193-wrestler bracket filled with high school state placers former Super 32 placers and high school state champions Stiffler took a 13-6 decision over Dallas Owens of West Virginia before losing 15-0 to New Jersey’s Gino Schinina He rebounded with a 19-4 tech fall decision over Georgia’s Pace Lilenfeld before falling 10-1 in the consolation round of 32 #1 to Colorado’s Niko Fernandez He had a slow start in his first win and dominated from the start in his second win I didn’t know they were doing college rules so they had danger (criteria),” Stiffler said and I was passing my leg over my head and my back was past that 90 degree angle so he got a quick takedown and they (referee) started calling (counting) for back (points) based up and got the escape then I started taking him down and letting him up building them up that turned into a tech (fall decision).” lost his opener to California’s Adrien Reyes 9-2 taking a dominating 13-3 win over Maryland’s William Martin He lost his third match to Ohio’s Kyler Crooks “The one win felt pretty good,” said Sigmon who went 0-2 in his previous Super 32 experience Sigmon’s goal was to win at least one match at the high-level event just take it one match at a time,” Sigmon said of his approach “If I win one match then try to win the next one.” a fourth-place finisher at state last year felt staying consistent and not overdoing moves while on his feet and also in both the top and bottom positions on the mat were key to his win “That is what I worked on throughout the summer – where I was positioning at and how things fall with me (off the positioning).” Both wrestlers are gearing up for the upcoming high school season Enterprise finished as the Class 7A state runner-up in state duals and seventh in the traditional format Enterprise was ranked fifth in the preseason coaches poll released this past week Stiffler said that is added fuel for the Wildcats everybody is placing us lower,” Stiffler said “They think the teams we beat last year are going to beat us this year.” Stiffler and Sigmon are both aiming for a state title with Stiffler seeking a two-peat as champion Enterprise has not had a two-time champion since renewing the sport in 2018-19 though the school did have a two-time state champion (Steve Rogers 1964-65) in its first venture in wrestling before discontinuing the sport in the early 1970s Stiffler has one more national meet on his schedule on Oct which I am really prepping for,” Stiffler said I don’t know if any people in Alabama have placed at that tournament Both Stiffler and Sigmon plan to wrestle after high school Stiffler recently visited and was accepted to school by Northern Illinois Sigmon has had interest from UNC Pembroke in North Carolina and from Montevallo University in Alabama “It has been a goal of mine since I started high school wrestling,” Sigmon said of college wrestling went 1-2 in the girls 132-pound weight class at the Super 32 meet She lost her opener 10-0 to Maryland’s Taina Fernandez she rebounded with a 12-4 win over Pennsylvania’s Ava Williams She lost her third match to Maryland’s Kailey Benson 10-0 He lost 5-2 in his opener to Kyler Walters of Minnesota before beating Virginia’s Israel Garland (pin 3:10) and California’s Junior Bumanlang (12-4) He lost 8-3 to Indiana’s Adrian Pellot in the consolation of 32 #2 round competing in the girls 160-pound weight class lost 10-0 to Minnesota’s Esperanza Calvillo and 3-0 to Virginia’s Cameron Millsapps wrestling in the 118-pound weight division lost 10-0 to Pennsylvania’s Saige Oliver and 4-2 to Georgia’s Kara-lynn Dover Competing in the 82 kg weight class (180 pounds) Kirk was seeded 19th but won four straight matches including three victories over top 10 se… Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced plans to build 17 new temples Sunday in the final session of the April 2022 General Conference This brings the total number of temples worldwide (including active temples No new temple sites in Utah were announced this time. In the previous General Conference in October, President Russell M. Nelson announced that a new temple will be built in Heber Valley, and the Provo Temple will be reconstructed READ: Main Street walkway through SLC Temple Square to close until 2023 for renovations joining Billings and Helena (under construction) Modesto will be the 10th temple in California Wichita will be the first Latter-day Saint temple in Kansas Cleveland is either Ohio's second or third Latter-day Saint temple The Columbus Ohio temple is under renovation The church's first temple was built in Kirtland but it is currently owned by the Community of Christ — an offshoot that broke away from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1800s Knoxville joins Memphis and Nashville as the third temple in Tennessee San Luis Potosí and Mexico City Benemérito will be the 18th and 19th temples in Mexico Maceió and Santos are the 15th and 16th temples in Brazil Rio de Janeiro (completed; dedication May 8) Birmingham will be the third temple in the United Kingdom (all three in England) Brazzaville will be the church's first temple in the Republic of the Congo There are three in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a separate country that borders the Republic of the Congo the capital city of New Zealand located on the southwestern tip of the North Island will be the country's third after Hamilton (under renovation) and Auckland (under construction) President Russell M. Nelson announced plans to construct 17 new temples during the Sunday afternoon session of General Conference President Nelson mentioned how positive spiritual momentum will increase as people worship in the temple and come to understand the blessings they receive from attendance 'I plead with you to counter worldly ways by focusing on the eternal blessings of the temple Your time there brings blessings for eternity,' President Nelson said The temples will be built in the following locations: 'These temples will bless you on both sides of the veil,' President Nelson said The Daily Universe is an educational lab tied to the curriculum of the journalism sequence in the BYU School of Communications and is committed to the mission of BYU and its sponsoring institution The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Contact us: Dureceptionist@byu.edu The first stake in Pachuca was organized in 1984 The Pachuca Mexico Temple was announced by President Nelson on Oct The Pachuca Mexico Temple will be built in or near Pachuca Pachuca Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1117449 This article is part of the Research TopicData Driven and Model Based Computational Futures in Cardiovascular PracticeView all 9 articles The treatment of ischaemic stroke increasingly relies upon endovascular procedures known as mechanical thrombectomy (MT) which consists in capturing and removing the clot with a catheter-guided stent while at the same time applying external aspiration with the aim of reducing haemodynamic loads during retrieval uniform consensus on procedural parameters such as the use of balloon guide catheters (BGC) to provide proximal flow control or the position of the aspiration catheter is still lacking Ultimately the decision is left to the clinician performing the operation and it is difficult to predict how these treatment options might influence clinical outcome In this study we present a multiscale computational framework to simulate MT procedures The developed framework can provide quantitative assessment of clinically relevant quantities such as flow in the retrieval path and can be used to find the optimal procedural parameters that are most likely to result in a favorable clinical outcome The results show the advantage of using BGC during MT and indicate small differences between positioning the aspiration catheter in proximal or distal locations The framework has significant potential for future expansions and applications to other surgical treatments since the fluid phase is not present in their models the haemodynamic forces caused by aspiration are estimated and implicitly represented through a traction force acting on the proximal part of the clot where they modeled the movement of the clot as arterial stenosis of variable magnitude In this work we aim at developing a modeling framework to simulate the aspiration during the thrombectomy procedure using a 1D model of the cerebral circulation The framework is applied to a virtual population of 65 year old patients with the intention of assessing the efficacy of proximal flow control devices in influencing the cerebral circulation in the MCA the location of the aspiration catheter and the applied aspiration flow rate influence flow in the critical path and its neighboring vessels we identify the configurations more likely to deliver favorable haemodynamic conditions during surgery we further developed and validated a 1D cerebral circulation model that simulates blood flow in a virtual population of healthy individuals across a broad age range we applied the modeling approach to simulate a typical MT procedure with proximal flow control and then investigate the influence of aspiration on reverse flow in the region of interest We will first briefly present the main features of the 1D modeling framework we adopted for this study and then describe how it is used for the simulation of ageing and aspiration thrombectomy The 1D modeling framework is based on a previous implementation developed by Melis et al. (32). It is built using the open source software openBF (33), which relies on the finite volume method and the MUSCL scheme (34) to iteratively solve the problem of describing the blood circulation in a network of elastic vessels narrow tubes which can deform elastically in the radial direction while undergoing zero-displacement in the longitudinal direction the conservation of mass and momentum are expressed in cylindrical coordinates and then integrated along the radial direction A complete formulation also requires the definition of a constitutive relationship which relates the transmural pressure with the area of the vessel and an estimate of the shape of the velocity profile The assumption of a parabolic profile yields the following hyperbolic system of PDEs: The equations are solved by iteratively computing the flow rate blood pressure and blood velocity in all the vessels of the network The convergence of the method is assessed by evaluating the similarity of the current and previous pressure solution at the mid-point of each vessel This is done through the L2 norm of their difference where Pin is the pressure solution at the mid-point of vessel i during iteration n and the integral is computed over the cardiac cycle from t0 to tf The convergence criterion is applied to all the vessels in the network The iteration proceeds until the largest error in the entire network falls below a prescribed threshold (3 mmHg) The results presented in this study refer to the last simulated cardiac cycle The inlet boundary condition is applied at the heart The 13 outlet vessels are coupled to three element windkessel models Distribution of scaling parameters for the ageing model The inlet waveform was also scaled according to the scaling factor for cardiac outlet Simulations were run using openBF on the local HPC cluster Of the 1,000 individuals in the 65 year old population 211 led to physiological results and were simulated during a MT procedure Further details on the number of subjects in the physiological group are presented in the section “3 Distributions of systolic and diastolic brachial pressure with age We also evaluated the average velocity in the MCA in different age groups Only a few studies have reported measurements of the mean velocity in the MCA in patients of different ages (38–40) Results tend to show low coefficients of linear correlation and therefore we only performed an analysis of the trend shown by the MCA mean velocity and PI predicted by the ageing model Each of the 211 physiological 65 year old individuals was given an IS in the left MCA. The stroke was described as a complete occlusion of the artery, modeled by imposing zero flow at the corresponding outlet (35). Following this, we performed a simulated MT procedure on each patient. The procedure is depicted in Figure 2 and modeled as follows: Figure 2. Schematic representation of steps 1, 2, and 3 of the aspiration thrombectomy procedure with the balloon guided catheter (BGC, gray ball) placed in the Internal Carotid, proximal 1 (ICApp) and aspiration applied on the proximal face of the thrombus. Vessel numbering is the same as in Figure 1 (Step 1) The aspiration catheter and stent retriever engage the clot; (Step 2) the clot is retrieved while aspiration is still applied; (Step 3) following successful removal of the clot aspiration is still applied to avoid distal embolization (1) The BGC is inflated at the bifurcation between in the ipsilateral proximal ICA External Carotid and Common Carotid arteries The presence of the BGC was modeled by disconnecting the junction between these three vessels and imposing a zero-flow boundary condition at the proximal part of the proximal ICA is started when the stent retriever is mobilized We simulated three distinct aspiration locations between proximal and distal ICA (ICApp during the retrieval phase the moving clot was modeled as a 70% stenosis of the artery where the clot was located aspiration is still applied to ensure that fragments are not embolized pre-intervention boundary conditions were restored in the MCA Network configurations for simulations of mechanical thrombectomy Figure 3. The surgical procedure as modeled in openBF. Vessel numbering is the same as in Figure 1 gray circle) is located at the junction between Internal Three positions of the aspiration catheter are shown: Blue (B) 1D representation of the retrieval path and neighboring vessels Arrows indicate the positive direction of flow The effects of aspiration rate were evaluated by studying the resulting distributions of mean flow in the MCA The mean flow is defined as the time average of the vessel flow rate over a cardiac cycle A total of 26% of the 6,000 virtual subjects that were generated were physiologically plausible. The mean and standard deviation of brachial systolic and diastolic pressures are shown in Table 4 and represented as line plots in Figure 4 compared with the literature data Outcome of the ageing model: Brachial pressure Figure 4. Outcome of the ageing model, comparison of brachial pressure against experimental data from McEniery et al. (37) Solid line indicates the mean values while shaded areas represent one standard deviation We observe the expected monotonic increase in the systolic pressure from 122 to 124 mmHg Brachial diastolic pressure increases from 75 mmHg at 25 years to 77 mmHg at 55 years and then constantly declines until 75 mmHg at 75 years Figure 5. Outcome of the ageing model, comparison of MCA mean velocity (top row) and pulsatility in the MCA (bottom row) against experimental data. Simulation results are shown in blue, validation points from Alwatban et al. (40) are shown in red, while points from Alwatban et al. (39) are shown in green In this and the following section we present the results from the MT simulation on the population of 211, 65 year old virtual patients. The distribution of average MCA flow during the active retrieval phase is shown in Table 5 224.13) ml/min when the aspiration point is located in ICApp Increasing the aspiration to 5 ml/s reduces the flow by 35% and a further increase yields an additional 50% reduction Average values of median MCA flow (ml/min) during the active retrieval phase Middle cerebral artery flows for individual clot locations during retrieval are shown in Figure 6 for 5 ml/s aspiration At the beginning of the procedure the MCA average flow is practically zero since the clot is fully obstructing the artery As this is dislodged from its initial location MCA flow sharply increases to a value that remains essentially constant during the entire retrieval process This is observed in all twelve network configurations Distributions of average MCA volumetric flow rate during clot retrieval for three different positions of the aspiration catheter (ICApp and ICAd) when 5 ml/s aspiration is applied BLUE: Aspiration in the proximal part of the proximal Internal Carotid (ICApp); ORANGE: Aspiration in the distal part of the proximal Internal Carotid (ICApd); GREEN: Aspiration in distal Internal Carotid (ICAd) The number of bars of a specific colour depends on the length of the retrieval path for the corresponding aspiration location (i.e. with aspiration in ICAd the retrieval path consists of MCA and ICApd; with aspiration in ICAd the retrieval path consists only of MCA and ICAd) Figure 7 shows the distribution of average flow along the retrieval path (MCA proximal ICA after the Ophthalmic artery) and in its neighboring vessels (ACA for three different locations of the aspiration catheter (ICApp ICApd and ICAd) and two different clot locations (ICApd and ICAd) This corresponds to the network configurations C3 We report here the results obtained for an applied aspiration rate of 5 ml/s Figure 7. Haemodynamic conditions in the vessels neighboring the retrieval path. Results are shown for the 211 subjects in the 65 year old population with 5 ml/s aspiration rate in configurations C3, C8, and C11. Details of the configurations are given in Table 3 In absence of stroke the blood supply to the left side of the brain originates mostly from the left proximal ICA The largest part of this supply is directed to the perfusion of distal MCA territories while the remainder supplies the proximal ACA and then the distal ACA severely affects this circulatory dynamics causing retrograde flow along the retrieval path and its neighboring vessels When the aspiration is applied in the proximal ICA (configurations C3 and C8) the clot must be dragged through this vessel as well modifications in arterial flow during clot retrieval are negligible the mean ACA flow exhibits a distribution with median 360 ml/min (retrograde) Similar values are found in the proximal and distal ICA throughout the entire procedure well balanced conditions carries low blood volumes while the flow in the Ophthalmic artery is close to zero the direction of flow is toward the aspiration point signifying that advantageous haemodynamics conditions are created and the clot is retrieved under a favorable pressure gradient which opposes potential propagation of clot fragments toward the distal vasculature In case of aspiration located in the distal ICA (configuration C11) the retrieval path consists only of the MCA and the distal ICA itself Flow in all vessels in this configuration is similar to the C3 and C8 cases we observe lower flow in ICApp because of the combined effects of the distal position of the aspiration and the proximal position of the BGC The situation appears to be different in the MCA where flow reversal is never achieved during surgery a more proximal location of the aspiration catheter induces a small increase in MCA flow Because of their qualitative similarity to the 5 ml/s case, results for 0.5 and 10 ml/s aspiration rates will not be discussed here in detail but are available in Supplementary material half of the subjects show antegrade flow in ICAd with the aspiration located in the proximal part of proximal ICA In the case of aspiration distal to the Ophthalmic artery most of the patients present retrograde distal ICA flow with a non-negligible minority (25%) having positive flow In this study we presented a 1D computational framework for simulating the thrombectomy procedure with balloon guided catheter with occlusion in the MCA The method was used to assess the influence of aspiration location and aspiration rate during clot retrieval Results show the negligible effects of aspiration location on average MCA flow which is instead more influenced by the applied aspiration rate Net MCA retrograde flow was never achieved we showed that favorable haemodynamic conditions are obtained along the retrieval path and its neighboring vessels and complex behavior such as the increase of diastolic pressure from 25 to 55 years and its subsequent decline is successfully captured In terms of MCA velocity in healthy ageing individuals, our model predicts values of average velocity that are on the lower side of existing literature measurements (39, 40) This is likely due to an underestimation of the cerebral peripheral resistance by the computational model we predicted values of MCA pulsatility index lower than those previously reported possibly because of underestimation of vascular stiffness and the majority of them had already received intravenous thrombolytic drugs Adverse effects such as aortic dissection and intracerebral hemorrhage were observed in the group treated with distal aspiration leading the authors to conclude that proximal deployment is a valid alternative Retrograde MCA flow was observed only when large bore aspiration catheters were used in the MCA A precise comparison with our prediction of average values of 90 ml/min in the MCA with aspiration in the MCA is not possible because the authors report an aspiration pressure of 700 mmHg but not the aspiration flow rate The model we presented has some limitations. First, 1D modeling relies on the assumptions of straight arteries and doesn’t capture the geometrical complexity of vessels such as the ICA, whose tortuosity has been proposed as a predictor of the outcome of MT procedure (47, 48). Clinical reports (14) and studies from Bridio et al. (49) have confirmed this and have shown that for some configurations it is not possible to successfully perform the retrieval We did not include an explicit representation of the catheters and did not modify the radius of catheterized arteries. Catheterized arteries can be approximated as two concentric tubes where the blood is only allowed to flow in the cavity between the walls (17) This configuration presents higher resistance to flow and in pressure driven systems such as the cerebral circulation during aspiration thrombectomy can hinder blood circulation and reduce the efficacy of the aspiration procedure provide a way to evaluate the load acting on the clot using haemodynamic variables derived from 1D simulations we recognize that the conclusions drawn from our results on the optimal location of the aspiration catheter are based on purely fluid dynamics considerations whereas in clinical settings doctors tend to evaluate procedural outcome through post-thrombectomy perfusion (TICI as well as use of the mRS (modified Rankin Scale) and NIHSS score (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale) for long term neurological assessment of the patients was to show that the developed framework is able to effectively and realistically simulate a thrombectomy procedure and to use it for a preliminary evaluation of the optimal deployment of the aspiration catheter we have developed a computational framework for simulating mechanical thrombectomy in ageing populations We used it to characterize the optimal location for the aspiration catheter in case it can not be deployed proximal to the occlusion The results support the conclusions that balloon guided catheters induce favorable haemodynamic conditions proximal aspirations are still able to sustain the retrieval of clot while keeping a low risk of distal embolization The original contributions presented in this study are included in the article/Supplementary material further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author All authors gave approval for the final version of the manuscript to be published This study was funded by the European Commission H2020 programme through the CompBioMed and CompBioMed2 projects (Grant Agreement Nos Funds for open 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