Like many students at Brigham Young University-Idaho, Schada Alkamari felt spiritually drawn to the religious university. But the Moroccan citizen didn’t enroll to immerse herself in the Mormon faith. She came to BYU-Idaho, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to reaffirm her own religious beliefs.

Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith will be front-and-center [this] week, presented to millions of Americans watching as Romney accepts his party’s presidential nomination. Romney’s biography presented on the closing night of the convention will feature speakers who have worked with Romney in his role as a lay leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russ Schriefer, a strategist for the Romney campaign, said Friday.

Donny Osmond appeared on HuffPost Live Wednesday to promote the release of his 60th album, “The Soundtrack of My Life," which features covers of songs that have impacted his life as well as three original songs.

Chapter 6, Part 1: Faith in Jesus Christ, Patience, Hope

Like many parents, Sara Meldrum's mother worried about sending her daughter to college. She would be living in a co-ed dorm at UC Davis and exposed to things that weren't necessarily in keeping with their family's faith or value system: premartial sex and alcohol. Although college wouldn't be the first time Sara would be exposed to these things, it would be her first time on her own. Would she stay true to her convictions away from the family unit that encouraged and fostered belief? Despite the social pressures of college, Meldrum's faith flourished. She managed to engage socially with friends from the dorm. She became involved with her local church youth organization, where she took religious classes, hung out with friends and played competitive games of ping pong. She was given an opportunity to plan a lunch speaker series. These experiences and the community she found stregthened her convictions. Today Meldrum is married and lives in Germany. She reamins active in her faith by attending religious services as well as maintaining a private spiritual life through devotional activities like prayer and scripture study.

Since the 2017 youth theme is "Ask in Faith," The Piano Gal and 13-year-old Layla Mackey teamed up to perform a song composed and written by Angie Killian. Surrounded by young women playing the violin and viola and accompanied by 14-year-old Sara Arkell on the piano, Layla sang the song, "I Ask in Faith," which she posted to her YouTube account.

From creating a series of videos produced by the Church about temples, missions, education, and modesty to living her faith, Ariel Pearse is using the Miss World New Zealand pageant to spread the gospel.

Soon after the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed “My Mother’s Love” for a Mother’s Day special of Music and the Spoken Word, Janice Kapp Perry was asked to write a Father’s Day song as well. “For that song I only had my father, but I couldn’t have had a better example. It was my mother’s love and my father’s faith; that’s what I wrote about,” she said.

In late March, the LDS Church completed an ambitious project: a megamall. Built for about $2 billion, the City Creek Center stands across the street from the faith’s iconic Salt Lake Temple. ... "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attends to the total needs of its members," said Keith B. McMullin, who for 37 years served within the Mormon leadership and now heads a church-owned holding company, Deseret Management Corp., or DMC, an umbrella organization for many of the faith’s for-profit businesses. "We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually."

MR says: Not only was Elder Joseph Wirthlin a devoted disciple of Christ, he was a talented college running back. Here are just a few incredible stories that show how Elder Wirthlin's faith grew through football.