(Salt Lake City, UT) — LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson is celebrating his 100th birthday today. This makes him the first LDS Church president to reach 100-years-old. Nelson is asking people to commemorate his birthday by reaching out to someone in need. The Church will host a birthday broadcast […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The LDS Church has broken ground on three new temples. One is in Austin, Texas, another is in Santiago, Chile, while the third is in Londrina, Brazil. Once the Santiago Temple is completed, Santiago will become the seventh city in the world to have multiple […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is getting a one-month head start on wishing President Russell M. Nelson a happy 100th birthday. The church sponsored a “special birthday broadcast” in his honor over the weekend. A video on the church’s YouTube page quotes […]
(Provo, UT) — Brigham Young University is going to have its own medical school. The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced today that the new school will focus on international health issues, particularly those affecting the church’s members and its humanitarian efforts. The announcement […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is extending congratulations to Salt Lake for securing the host bid for the 2024 Winter Olympics. In a social media post church officials say they celebrate the news and recall the feelings of unity and peace felt […]
Around 1:45 p.m. on June 27, a youth group from the Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints from Salina area was hiking south of the Fremont Junction near the willow springs overlook in the eastern part of Sevier County when it began to rain. According to a press release from […]
(Taylorsville, UT) — LDS Church Elder Gerrit W. Gong dedicated the Taylorsville Utah Temple yesterday. The church says dedicating is a ceremony in which a special prayer is said, designating the building for use. The dedication ceremony was held in two sessions, one at 10:00 a.m. and the other at […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A senior LDS missionary and his wife are dead following a car crash last Saturday in Fresno, California. Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say Elder Paul Hardin of San Antonio died Monday after he was hospitalized in critical condition following […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The LDS Church has announced plans to build two new temples in the suburbs of Salt Lake City. The first temple will be built in Lehi, and will include both a new meetinghouse and a multi-story temple building measuring about 85-thousand square feet. It will […]
(Provo, UT) — The reconstruction of the Provo Temple of the LDS Church is officially underway. Some demolition is taking place ahead of the project, including the removal of the building’s golden Angel Moroni statue. The reconstruction project was announced by Church President Russell M. Nelson in the months after […]
