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Church Releases New Statement on Medical Marijuana Issue

The Church has come out with a new statement clarifying and elaborating on their stance and views of medical marijuana.

Muslims, Mormons, Jews & Buddhists Work Together to Help Syrian Refugees

Members of the New York, New York Stake along with 900 interfaith volunteers helped donated 7,500 hygiene kits to refugees on Saturday, June 5.

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Listen to a Missionary from the 1800s Sing a Hymn in Maori

A unique audio recording has recently come to light in New Zealand, a recording which chronicles the experiences of the first Mormon missionary to connect with the Parihaka people. (Parihaka was the largest Maori settlement in New Zealand.)

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Newest Volume Published for the Joseph Smith Papers Project

The latest publication in the Joseph Smith Papers Project—the inaugural volume of its Documents series, Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831—was released September 4 with an announcement at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City.

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Lecture Shows that Restrictions on Blacks & the Priesthood Was Policy, Never Doctrine

Lester Bush said Thursday night he couldn't imagine the future positive historical developments for blacks in the LDS Church when he wrote his landmark 1973 history about the restriction on giving blacks the priesthood.

SPONSORED: Benefit Concert to Raise Money for LDS Missionary Fund

By LDS Missionary Expo

OREM, UTAH - A benefit concert featuring singing sensation Nathan Pacheco and Grammy-nominated violinist Jenny Oaks Baker will be held Friday, October 3, at 8 p.m. at the UCCU Center at UVU to raise money to support LDS missionaries worldwide.

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First Presidency Announces New Young Women General Presidency

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a new Young Women General Presidency during the Saturday afternoon session of the faith’s 183rd Annual General Conference today. The following individuals will serve in the new presidency:

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Muslims, Mormons, Quakers, & Other Faiths Worship Together on Temple Square

Earlier this week, the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions came to an end in Salt Lake City.

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Mormon Missionaries from U.S. Return to Botswana After 4-Year Absence

When Botswana first issued a blanket prohibition on foreign missionaries, the number of Mormon missionaries in Botswana dropped to one-sixth its previous number. We're excited to see missionaries return to the country after a four-year absence.

MSNBC: Mitt Romney's French missionary education

To understand why Mitt Romney persists in the face of rejection, opposition and indifference from his own party, look no further than the two and a half years he spent in France, getting up at 6:30 a.m. every day to venture forth and have doors slammed in his face for 10 hours. The fresh-faced Latter-Day Saints who came to France in the late 1960s to preach the message of Jesus Christ — of whom Republican presidential candidate Romney is the best known — discovered a secular and skeptical populace, and few willing converts.