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Once known as the Kingdom of Siam, the country was renamed Thailand in 1939 but has also been known as the Land of Smiles, the Land of the Yellow Robes, and the Land of a Million Elephants.

"I Saw Shots Coming Near Us": LDS Senator in Virginia Shooting Lauded as Hero, Receives Call from Obama

By Danielle B. Wagner

A Mormon and Arizona senator, Jeff Flake, was dubbed "one of the many heroes to emerge" by The Week after the shooting during a congressional baseball practice just outside of Washington, D.C.

How One Woman's Missionary Efforts Created a Branch in 1900s England

“I was brought up a Baptist,” Eva Rowe Salway wrote to a granddaughter in 1946, “and was always interested in religion, but somehow I could not swallow hell, and the three-in-one doctrine. … After my marriage I stopped that church and tried many others.”

Snow Woes

By Emily Watts

A beautiful blanket of white covered the graying world, gathering light from the full moon and reflecting it up to make the night bright. It was perfectly silent outside, the snow absorbing all the noise and leaving only a feeling of breathtaking awe.

Latter-day Saint Life

9 truths about dads the media will never tell you

Here are a few interesting truths about dads that you won't ever see on TV.

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LDS Dad Writes Touching Letter to His Little Girls: These Are the Days of Pure Magic

By Daryl Austin

You are my three little girls, but I know you won’t stay that way for long. I don’t fully realize it yet but somehow I know these are the days I'm going to miss the most.

Mormon artist battles post-9/11 Muslim stereotypes

Andrew Kosorok was disturbed when some Americans began to view Islam as a religion of violence after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “The overwhelming majority of Muslims view the terrorists as the overwhelming majority of Christians view Charles Manson or David Koresh,” said Kosorok, an artist and Brigham Young University adjunct professor. “We don’t recognize what they practiced as being Christian.”

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Watch: LDS Sisters' Beautiful Mashup of the Hymn "Amazing Grace" and James Bay's "Let it Go"

By LDS Living

Two sisters from the LDS group Eleyni recently released a gorgeous music video featuring a unique medley of the hymn "Amazing Grace" and James Bay's popular song "Let It Go." Eleyni, which means "ray of sunlight" in Greek, is a musical group of three LDS singer-songwriter sisters—Seli, Desi, and Ari.

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World-Famous Mormon DJ to Perform Free Concert in Provo

To learn more about Kaskade's career as the straight-edge Mormon DJ, click here. To learn more about other Mormons who rock the music industry, click here.

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Mormon Growth Rate Falls to Lowest Level in 80 Years, but Ups and Downs Vary by Region

Though the Church is continuing to grow throughout the world, the rate of growth slowed to its lowest levels in decades last year. And what's even more surprising, while Church growth is slowing in some areas, it is booming in countries that were not previously considered hotbeds of Church activity.