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NPR Covers Growing LDS Sister Missionary Force

There are 11,000 more female missionaries around the world now than there were a year ago. Women comprise 24 percent of all Mormon missionaries, up from 15 percent before the change.

California Ward Garden Leads to Baptisms

Latter-day Saints in Carpinteria have been busy planting the seeds of missionary work in their backyard.

Latter-day Saints Celebrate National Day of Prayer

Though national days of prayer had been called from time to time since 1775 by the Continental Congress, no regular annual day of prayer existed until 1952. That year the United States Congress declared the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer. In 2014, the National Day of Prayer lands on May 1 and marks the 62nd annual National Day of Prayer.

Viral Letter from Deceased 12-year-old Inspires Trust in God

The letter a 12-year-old girl intended only for herself gained national recognition when her parents found it in her belongings and shared its inspiring message online.

Mormons and Death: Childhood Pets

My sister and her family recently moved across the country, just a few days after their pet cat gave birth to four kittens. When my sister’s family arrived in their new state of residence, they stayed with a friend of a friend while they looked for a new home. These hospitable strangers owned a dog. A couple days into their stay as house guests, my sister and her husband heard their three-year-old daughter screaming. They ran to her aid but they were too late. The dog had killed all four kittens and my tiny little niece had witnessed the tragedy.

From the Church

Church issues statement on the Respect for Marriage Act

By Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church released the following statement with regards to the United States Congress Respect for Marriage Act.

Viral YouTube Family, Shaytards, Discuss Mormon Faith

For Shay and Collete Butler, family life isn't too private, but they wouldn't have it any other way. For the past four years the Butler family has been known to the world as the "Shaytards" on YouTube with more than 1 million followers.

Latter-day Saint Life

How I Gained My Testimony of Joseph Smith

This Friday, June 27th, marks the 170th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. As this anniversary has approached my thoughts understandably have turned to those events on that tragic summer day so many years ago.

Obama discusses faith at National Prayer Breakfast

President Barack Obama said Thursday that his faith has deepened during his two years in the White House, and he urged lawmakers to rely on their own faith to build a spirit of civility in Washington following the shooting of a congresswoman.

Mormon History Group Honors Darius Gray

Seven years before President Spencer W. Kimball received a revelation allowing black men to be ordained to the priesthood in the LDS Church, Darius Gray knelt in prayer with two other black male Latter-day Saints. That soon led to the founding of what would be the Genesis group, a support organization for African-American church members formed with general leaders of the church — including Elder Gordon B. Hinckley, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — as advisers.