SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is giving $20 million to help a program aimed at distributing coronavirus vaccines to poor countries around the world. The donation from the humanitarian arm of the Utah-based faith goes to UNICEF as part of the organization’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is giving $20 million to help a program aimed at distributing coronavirus vaccines to poor countries around the world. The donation from the humanitarian arm of the Utah-based faith goes to UNICEF as part of the organization’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Oregon man has filed a lawsuit accusing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of not doing enough to protect him from a man he says sexually abused him in the 1980s. David Hiser is seeking $5.5 million in damages in the lawsuit […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged its members to get a COVID-19 vaccine when it’s their turn, while announcing Tuesday that eight top leaders and most of their wives received their first doses. Ninety-six-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson and the others […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemned “lawless behavior” and the violence of rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol in a statement Friday. It was the faith’s first public comments since the Jan. 6 attack by pro-Trump loyalists. The top leaders from […]
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man is claiming he was sexually abused as a Boy Scout and that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints threatened ex-communication when he tried to report it 45 years ago. Attorneys for the man announced a lawsuit Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it didn’t improperly meddle in a death row inmate’s 2015 trial when it laid out ground rules for what local church leaders could say before they testified as character witnesses. FOX 13 reported Saturday that church […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been hit with several lawsuits for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona, marking the latest litigation before the state’s end-of-year deadline for adult victims to sue. Attorneys for seven victims across […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has added new language to the faith’s handbook imploring members to root out prejudice and racism. The update Friday adds significance and permanence to recent comments by top leaders on one of the most sensitive topics in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Colorado woman has agreed to drop a lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints alleging she was sexually assaulted by a former missionary leader in the 1980s. Court documents filed Thursday show the mutually agreed ending was not a settlement and […]
