It was a historic evening on Sunday night, April 6, in Slovenia when for the first time since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in this Central Europe country in 1990, members were able to watch general conference live on national television.
“I believe my heart is not strong enough to hold the joy inside of me,” said Ivan Majc, national communications director for Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Serbia and Montenegro in the Church’s Adriatic North District. “For someone called to help ‘bring the Church out of obscurity’ in countries where the Church is still relatively unknown, this was like a dream come true.”
While many Slovenian Latter-day Saints watched the April 2025 general conference’s Sunday morning session on live television in their homes, dozens gathered at the Ljubljana Branch meetinghouse and in other parts of Slovenia to watch it together.
Albin Lotric, the first Church member in Slovenia, remembered traveling to Klagenfurt, Austria, 30 years ago to videotape general conference because the chapel there was equipped with a satellite broadcasting system. He videotaped the proceedings and returned to Ljubljana to show it to other branch members.
“When the Church broadcasted conference for the first time on the internet, we set up the technology to watch it live,” Lotric said. “I still remember how grateful we were to see our leaders in real time. I never imagined I would see general conference on a Slovenian TV channel. I am grateful to the people who are behind this achievement because they dared to do the seemingly impossible—and they did it.”
Read more about Slovenia’s historic conference TV broadcast on the Church News.
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