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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.

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5 LDS Athletes Competing in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics

Congratulations to all those headed to the Olympics this week!

{LDSL Blog} Best of: Stories of the Week, Mar. 24-30

By LDS Living

We all love a good story. And what better way to find out the best of the best than seeing what people found most interesting? For the week of March 24 to 30, 2012, these are LDS Living’s top online stories:

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Harvard Study Finds Teens Who Attend Church, Pray Have a Better Well-Being

A recent Harvard study shows that teens who pray or meditate and attend religious services are more likely to maintain a healthy well-being in their young adult years.

Mitt Romney and Those 'Mormon Moments'

From Donny and Marie Osmond, to HBO's "Big Love," to Proposition 8 in California, to persistent -- and inaccurate -- Beltway legends about how half of the CIA is staffed by members of the LDS Church, America's Mormons have a way of episodically popping into the national consciousness. The recent ascent of Mitt Romney to the status of presumptive Republican nominee is no exception to this rule. It is yet another "Mormon moment" in a long string of such moments dating back to the 19th century.