Two weeks ago, the Utah-based faith transferred 169 of its full-time proselytizers from the Central American nation due to rising political instability.
On Monday, it announced the remaining 158 missionaries will be shipped out, too, because of the “escalating violence and deteriorating conditions.”
They are being sent, church spokesman Daniel Woodruff said in a news release, to “temporary assignments in North America, South America, the Caribbean and New Zealand.”
Among those evacuated were the president of the Nicaragua Managua South Mission and his family, including young children. They have returned home.