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With the Olympics approaching, Brazil is a country currently filled with excitement as well as economic and political challenges. Amidst these struggles, Elder Holland found that "the gospel light shines brightly in Brazil and in the lives of members of the Church" on his recent visit to the country.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he agrees with a fellow Mormon who wrote recently that Mitt Romney has "sullied" the LDS faith and that the GOP presidential candidate is "not the face of Mormonism." Reid, a Mormon Democrat from Nevada, blasted Romney in a conference call for reporters over a litany of things the Republican nominee has said recently. And Reid added that Latter-day Saints aren’t buying Romney’s rhetoric.
During an on-air exchange Friday afternoon, Fox News political analyst Juan Williams commented with some intensity about how a person could walk into a black church and see what is going on but he couldn't do that in a Mormon Temple, in essence asking why not? In fairness he’s not the only person who still doesn't understand the distinction between regular churches and temples in the Mormon faith. Hopefully if he did, he wouldn't have been so condemning of the church on national TV.
To prepare for their own temple open house, small groups of Latter-day Saints and their friends have visited the sacred sites of other faiths, hoping to learn and foster interreligious relationships.
BUENA VISTA, Virginia — The first LDS apostle to speak officially at Southern Virginia University honored SVU's pioneers on behalf of Church leaders and praised the independent school's president at his inauguration on Friday.
It really doesn’t look like a typical church inside. It’s more of a community center kind of place. There’s a chapel off to one side, and lots of meeting rooms, offices, and the like. I went into “confused visitor mode,” which I often do when I go to a new church, and wandered around looking lost. I wandered upstairs, where there were offices for church officials, classrooms, and some kind of prayer meeting going on, and some guy asked me if he could help me.
During a historic trip through the Middle East on April 6-20, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve visited eight nations and addressed several thousand members of the Church. Growth in the area prompted the division of the former Manama Bahrain Stake into the Manama Bahrain District and the newly named Abu Dhabi Stake.
Donny Osmond, his wife, Debbie, and sons Chris and Josh visited the historic Mormon sites in Nauvoo and Carthage, Ill., recently on their way home. In Carthage, the Osmond family stood in a dimly lit room in the Carthage Jail where Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was imprisoned.