by Peggy Fletcher Stack | Dec 16, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Thirteen members of Congress are urging Swiss authorities to allow Mormon missionaries to continue serving beyond 2012, when a new rule would forbid non-European Union citizens from serving as missionaries. Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch, both Utah...
by Peggy Fletcher Stack and The Salt Lake Tribune | Nov 15, 2010 | News
(RNS) A newly published compilation of guidelines used worldwide by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has softened the language about gay Mormons. The book, known as the Church Handbook of Instructions, lays out Mormon policies on everything...
by Kristen Moulton and The Salt Lake Tribune | Nov 2, 2010 | News
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) For a man who evangelized foreign leaders and taught Sunday school while U.S. president, Jimmy Carter has some strong words for what he sees as an “excessive melding of religion and politics.” And it began, he said, with the denomination he called...
by Peggy Fletcher Stack and The Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 27, 2010 | News
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Mormons may not know until the hereafter what causes same-sex attraction, but “God loves all his children” and expects everyone to do the same, a top Mormon leader said Sunday (Oct. 24). While the message—delivered to more than 200,000 Utah...
by Peggy Fletcher Stack and The Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 13, 2010 | News
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) If a group of Orthodox Christians meeting in Salt Lake City this week (Oct. 14-16) has its way, future generations of Greek, Serbian, Russian and other ethnic faithful all will worship together in a single American church. A unified church would...
