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Watch for this Latter-day Saint athlete in the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
By  Church News
February 06, 2026 10:18 AM MST
Watching the 2026 Winter Olympics? Look for this Latter-day Saint athlete on Team USA's four-man bobsled team.
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The new hymn that began during a sacrament meeting
By  Church News
February 02, 2026 10:07 AM MST
As words came to mind, Stephen A. Reynolds wrote them down on his printed program.
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President Oaks to speak at BYU
By  Church News
January 30, 2026 10:16 AM MST
President Dallin H. Oaks will speak at Brigham Young University’s weekly campus devotional on Tuesday, Feb. 10.
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Family discovers 1,600 Italian ancestors
By  Church News
January 29, 2026 10:01 AM MST
The Molinaros now refer to what happened as their “family history miracle.”
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Stacie Powell, the first female US Navy chaplain for the LDS Church, smiles with Todd Linton and Tamara Harris.
Stories of Faith
Meet the Church’s first female US Navy chaplain
By  Church News
January 28, 2026 10:04 AM MST
The 49-year-old wife, mother, and grandmother recently became the first female active-duty Navy chaplain endorsed by the Church.
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87 baptized in the Kasumbalesa Democratic Republic of the Congo Stake in one day
By  Church News
January 22, 2026 09:22 AM MST
This marked a major spiritual milestone in the growth of the Church in the city of Kasumbalesa.
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President R. Kelly Haws, BYU–Hawaii's acting president, and his wife, Sister Nancy Haws, greet students following the first campus devotional of the semester, held in the Cannon Activities Center on Jan. 13, 2026, in Laie, Hawaii.
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A profound piece of counsel from the new acting president of BYU–Hawaii
By  Church News
January 21, 2026 10:12 AM MST
President R. Kelly Haws had a simple message for BYU–Hawaii students during his first devotional.
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Friends of 79 years to serve as missionary companions in Guam
By  Church News
January 15, 2026 09:45 AM MST
Both women hope to use their individual backgrounds to serve.
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Church adjusts how sister missionaries serve at Temple Square
By  Church News
January 12, 2026 11:22 AM MST
Adjustments are intended to enhance the guest experience and increase missionary opportunities.
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Temple Worship
What Church leaders have taught about temples
By  Church News
January 08, 2026 10:16 AM MST
“In these Houses of the Lord, we are taught the most important things we can learn in mortality, the knowledge of eternity.”
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Keynote speakers for RootsTech 2026
By  Church News
January 07, 2026 11:52 AM MST
RootsTech 2026 has announced seven keynote speakers, three to speak at the in-person event and four to speak virtually.
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Missionary work highlights from 2025
By  Church News
January 05, 2026 09:57 AM MST
Every region in the world experienced at least a 20 percent increase in convert baptisms.
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Lyrics updated in song ‘When I Am Baptized’
By  Church News
December 22, 2025 05:51 PM MST
The refreshed song was published in the January 2026 issue of the Friend magazine.
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Joseph and Mary hold the baby Jesus on the night of His birth.
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Watch: Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert guest artists read Luke 2
By  Church News
December 22, 2025 10:23 AM MST
One tradition of the Christmas concert is the reading of the Christmas story in Luke 2.
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Temple Worship
Beautiful light displays at temples around the world
By  Church News
December 18, 2025 10:13 AM MST
Each location offers its own traditions that draw visitors throughout December.
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10 principles about recognizing and understanding revelation
By  Church News
December 11, 2025 11:01 AM MST
“If you are really trying to listen and to be a disciple of Christ, you are walking in the Spirit—more than you maybe realize,” says Elder John A. McCune
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A teenage girl holding a camera smiles with her grandmother and grandfather.
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Latter-day Saint teen wins national film festival
By  Church News
December 10, 2025 11:58 AM MST
In her documentary, Paige Olsen highlighted her grandfather’s commitment to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Temple Worship
See what Indonesia’s first temple will look like
By  Church News
December 09, 2025 09:42 AM MST
Once built, this temple will stand on the northwest coast of Java, the most populous island in the world.
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These Australian Latter-day Saints might have the best tradition: Surfest
By  Church News
November 05, 2025 11:43 AM MST
“We can get together as surfers to not only share our love for the water but to also share our beliefs and strengthen each other.”
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A woman plays the piano next to a computer and a microphone.
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‘It really wrote itself’—the story behind a new children’s song for the hymnbook
By  Church News
November 03, 2025 02:25 PM MST
The composer says creating “How Did the Savior Minister?” felt more like remembering the song.
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Follow the Prophets
What Pres. Christofferson taught to thousands in Las Vegas
By  Church News
October 21, 2025 09:56 AM MDT
“You can have total confidence and trust in the resurrected Lord, His Church, His word, and His Second Coming.”
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President Dallin H. Oaks smiles with four great-grandchildren in his office at the Church Administration Building.
Follow the Prophets
Oaks family shares sweet photos and stories about the new prophet
By  Church News
October 20, 2025 01:50 PM MDT
“He truly loves people, and I hope the Church membership and people in general get to see that side of him,” shared his daughter.
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The first FSY conference in Ethiopia
By  Church News
October 17, 2025 01:51 PM MDT
Sixty-eight youth and 16 leaders gathered in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa.
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European young adults clean Bulgarian schoolyard in weeklong service project
By  Church News
October 15, 2025 10:16 AM MDT
Volunteers from Austria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, England, and France gathered to serve.
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