Latest from Mormon Land: Is LDS Church growth in Africa working? Rarely seen stats hold clues.

Positive news about LDS Church growth in Africa is hardly surprising nowadays, but some rarely seen stats reveal the breadth ...
KESQ News

Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution

Grand Blanc Township, Michigan (CNN) — The early history of the LDS Church is one of persecution and violence. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), ...
Boston Herald

New Mormon apostle led a global temple building boom and has deep knowledge of church finances

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gérald Caussé, a high-ranking official in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who oversaw its finances and a global temple building boom, became the faith’s newest ...

Is Russell Nelson’s push to drop the ‘Mormon’ name working with Latter-day Saints and outsiders? Will it last?

In 2018, then-LDS Church President Russell Nelson called on everyone to stop most uses of the "Mormon" term. Nearly, eight ...
Religion Dispatches

Mormon Missionary Service: Now with More Service

The 18-month or 2-year stint many young Mormons spend as a missionary is often referred to as serving a mission. Now maybe it will also be called a serving mission; as missionaries in three areas ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Whom might LDS leader Dallin Oaks select as the faith’s next apostle?

One of Russell M. Nelson’s first acts as Latter-day Saint prophet-president was to select the faith’s first apostles of color — Asian American Gerrit Gong and Brazilian Ulisses Soares. It was a ...