LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson was in Jerusalem this weekend for the second stop on his world tour, but left ahead of schedule due to “concerns pertaining to tension in the region and available airspace,” the Utah-based faith said Saturday.
The 93-year-old Mormon president and his wife, Wendy, along with apostle Jeffrey R. Holland and his wife, Patricia, began “the Africa portion of this trip sooner than planned,” spokesman Doug Andersen said in a statement.
The United States, France and Great Britain launched airstrikes in Syria early Saturday in retaliation for a reported chemical weapons attack by the Bashar Assad regime.