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Elder Ronald A. Rasband and Sister Melanie Rasband pose for a picture with Brooklyn Nets guard Egor Dëmin, middle, and LaRee and Travis Hansen, BYU’s senior associate athletic director, at the Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Latter-day Saint Life
Elder Rasband meets with NBA player at Temple Square
By  Church News
February 09, 2026 11:21 AM MST
The Apostle read a scripture from Isaiah with the Brooklyn Nets player while overlooking the flags in Temple Square plaza.
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The Olympic rings in front of a Milan Cortina Olympics arena.
Latter-day Saint Life
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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Latter-day Saint Life
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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Stories of Faith
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.
Latter-day Saint Life
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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Stories of Faith
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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Latter-day Saint Life
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.
Latter-day Saint Life
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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Latter-day Saint Life
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.
Stories of Faith
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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Elder Neil L. Andersen stands beside a microphone podium at the Provo Missionary Training Center
Follow the Prophets
What happened after the mic went out during Elder Andersen’s devotional
By  Church News
September 05, 2025 04:34 PM MDT
“When you are doing important things, things get in your way,” the Apostle said, just moments before the sound system unexpectedly shut off.
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Latter-day Saint Life
Why this Skateboarding Hall of Famer decided to get baptized
By  Church News
September 02, 2025 02:24 PM MDT
Sean Sheffey felt a God-shaped hole in his life. Then missionaries approached him in a skatepark.
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A group of eight adults and one baby pose with an heirloom Bible in front of a boat in Canada
Latter-day Saint Life
150-year-old family Bible returned to descendants across the globe
By  Church News
August 29, 2025 02:15 PM MDT
“I was impressed that the Bible had been kept safe for a reason,” William Dunbar said.
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Latter-day Saint Life
Latter-day Saint pitcher inducted to the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Fame
By  Church News
August 27, 2025 01:25 PM MDT
Vernon Law helped lead his team to the 1960 World Series title.
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Elder Scott Lieber and Shielly Oilouch take a photo in Palau in July 2025 near where he saved her live in 1983.
Stories of Faith
Senior missionary finds woman whose life he saved as a young elder
By  Church News
August 26, 2025 01:50 PM MDT
Elder Lieber found her two days before the end of his service as a senior missionary.
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Latter-day Saint Life
Sister Yee shares 7 ways to prepare your heart for the Second Coming
By  Church News
August 22, 2025 01:53 PM MDT
With softer, more open hearts, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can prepare for Jesus Christ’s Second Coming, taught Sister Kristin M. Yee, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, at BYU Education Week.
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