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Taiwan school fires Mormon teachers for faith, fined for discrimination
Taiwan has fined a school for firing two Mormon teachers over their faith, marking the first time that religious discrimination in the workplace has been punished on the island, officials said on Wednesday. The Catholic Dominican International School, located in Taipei, has been fined US$20,000 (S$25,200) for sacking the two American women, according to the capital's labour bureau.
3 Mormon Moms to Compete on Bible Game Show
The Game Show Network's most successful original game show "The American Bible Challenge" is back for season three, airing Thursdays at 6 p.m. on GSN.
Abandoned LDS church to benefit nonprofit groups
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse on the northwest corner of 100 South and 400 East used to be home to the 13th Ward in the Salt Lake Central Stake, according to a building directory inside the building. Built in 1951, mostly by members of the LDS Church, the three-story building with a green copper steeple housed congregants for decades before services moved to another chapel.
‘Book of Mormon Girl’ gets audience with Jon Stewart
A national book editor once told Joanna Brooks that if she were a Presbyterian married to a Jew, her coming-of-age autobiography would find a ready audience across the nation. Interfaith marriages are big, the editor said. But a Mormon? No way. So Brooks, an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture and senior correspondent for ReligionDispatches.org, published the book herself in January.
The Wrong Kind of Minority
The Washington Post proclaimed in a recent headline another historic "first" for the United States — the first female usher-in-chief at the White House. Stop the presses! The accompanying story reveals that the nominee hails from Jamaica, so it's probably a two-fer. Oh, boy.
2011: The year Mormonism went mainstream
Something happened to Mormons in 2011: They got popular, gained cachet and became, well, cool.
"On Faith" Blog: Mormons in the Mainstream
On the “On Faith” blog today, Michael Otterson comments on the study on Mormons released today by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: Over the years we’ve learned quite a bit from opinion polls about how Americans view Mormons. Clearly, there is a big knowledge gap about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, complicated by a lot of erroneous assumptions.
Mormons in America: The 'cosmopolitan and sophisticated' members
Whether or not Mitt Romney makes it to the White House, his candidacy signals that Mormons have arrived in American political life. Just as President Obama’s nomination and election marked a sea change in the country’s tortured racial history, so Romney’s nomination has changed religious boundaries that have persisted for more than 160 years. No religious group has been more persecuted by the U.S. government, or more derided by other faiths present in the country, than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or the LDS Church, as many Mormons refer to it).
A religious test for president?
It’s unsettling news: One in five voters would be less likely to vote for a Mormon candidate for president, according to a new Gallup Poll.
LDS missionaries in Samoa safe, temple damaged in Cyclone Evan's wake
All LDS missionaries are safe and accounted for in the wake of Cyclone Evan, one of the most powerful storms to hit Samoa and American Samoa in 20 years. News reports indicate the storm has caused severe damage to homes and businesses, and at least two people are reported dead as a result of Evan’s impact.