-- Jan 25, 2004
The first meetinghouse of the Church in Cambodia, a two-story structure in Phnom Penh, was dedicated. (1)
-- 2004 Late January
Membership in the Church passed the 12 million mark. (1)
-- Feb 17, 2004
[U.S. Religious History] According to a CNN survey, children made more than 11,000 allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The 4,450 priests involved constitute about 4 percent of the 110,000 priests who served during the 52 years covered by the study. (2)
[U.S. Religious History] Bishop Thomas O'Brien, former head of Arizona's largest Roman Catholic diocese, was convicted of a hit and run. He thus became the first Catholic bishop in the United States to ever be convicted of a felony. (2)
-- 2004 22-Feb
[Hinckley] Rededicated São Paulo Brazil Temple (3)
-- Feb 25, 2004
[U.S. Religious History] Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ" opens in theaters in the United States. (2)
-- Mar 20, 2004
[U.S. Religious History] A lesbian minister in Bothell, Washington, is acquitted by a Methodist church jury of violating church rules. (2)
-- During March 2004
[Mormon Tabernacle Choir] Choir releases its third recording on its own label, Peace Like a River. (4)
-- Apr 3, 2004
The Sixth Quorum of the Seventy was created in a division of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy (1)
-- 2004 6-Apr
President Hinckley's wife, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, passed away at age 92 (3)
-- Apr 20, 2004
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters‘ Hall of Fame. (5)
[Mormon Tabernacle Choir] The choir and its Music and the Spoken Word broadcast are inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. (4)
-- During Spring 2004
[Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought] Karen Marguerite Moloney (6)
Footnotes:
1 - Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html
2 - Cline, Austin, History of American Religion: Timeline
3 - LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president
4 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Newsroom, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=036eb2987ff92110VgnVCM100000176f620aRCRDvgnextchannel=9ae411154963d010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD
5 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
6 - Wikipedia, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue:_A_Journal_of_Mormon_Thought#List_of_Dialogue_editors
Mormon History Timeline /Chronology
http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/
