LDS Church

Slain LDS Church leader remembered as humble, heroic

VISALIA, Calif. -- Clay Sannar, the young LDS Church leader gunned down Sunday by a mentally ill stranger, would want his family to heal and move on without him, his brother said Wednesday.

Mormon church, Jewish leaders tackle proxy baptism

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for posthumous baptism by proxy.

911 call released in death of LDS bishop

VISALIA, Calif. -- Visalia, Calif., police on Tuesday released the 911 tape of a man calling police to report that he had just killed a Mormon bishop in Visalia.

LDS Church, China reach agreement

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday that its members in China will be able to live their religion openly and comfortably while keeping their lives in accordance with Chinese law.

LDS bishop killed in Vasalia, California

FRESNO, Calif. — A Mormon bishop in Visalia was killed Sunday when a man entered the church complex, asked for the church's leader and then shot him, police said. The suspect later called police, who found the man a short time later in a central Visalia neighborhood and fatally shot him.

Orson Badger digs around a headstone in order to remove and level the stone at the Ogden City Cemetery on Saturday. He was one of about 100 who volunteered with the Pleasant View South Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to clean up several areas in the community.

LDS stake beautifies cemetery, monument, park, road

OGDEN -- Four community areas received a face lift Saturday from volunteers with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Pleasant View South Stake.

Man sues LDS Church, blames 200 baptisms in one day for back pain

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Las Vegas man injured while performing submersion baptisms in the name of the dead has sued The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for medical expenses.

Mormon church supplies relief goods to Pakistan

SALT LAKE CITY -- A senior Mormon church official says the faith is coordinating with relief agencies to supply humanitarian aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan.

Ken Warnick sits in the LDS Church office building recently where he volunteers on a regular basis.

Community leader honored for good works

OGDEN -- After three decades of service to the Ogden area, Ken Warnick is riding off into the sunset.

Roots in Mormon church and Hawaii family keep Notre Dame's Manti Te'o grounded

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- Outside the chapel walls on the first Sunday of August, there is little more than sunlight and a tinny thrum of cicadas.

Clothing exchange a success in Ogden

OGDEN -- Clothes filled tables and clothing racks, and piles and piles more filled the cultural hall and foyer at the Ogden East Stake Center in preparation for the stake's very first clothing exchange last Saturday.

LDS agrees to lower temple height, raise spire

 

PHOENIX -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has unveiled redesign plans for its proposed north Phoenix temple.

Interfaith leader at Sunstone: Gay marriage a legal issue

SALT LAKE CITY -- People of faith should engage in civil dialogue about gay marriage, but government should rely on the U.S. Constitution -- not religion -- in deciding who can marry, the head of the national Interfaith Alliance said Friday.

(Courtesy photo) Robyn Sleight sits on the lap of her husband, Evan, after he became paralyzed from the neck down in a March 29 accident on Interstate 15 near Willard. The Brigham City man is rehabilitating in a hospital in Colorado.

Brigham family recovering after crash; paralyzed DOD employee hoping to continue 'top secret' work

One minute, Evan Sleight was driving to work; the next minute, he was fighting for his life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Schwarzenegger: Allow resumption of gay marriages, many want judge's temporary stay lifted

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In a surprising court filing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Friday that gay marriages be allowed to resume immediately in California after a federal ruling that the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

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