Mormon

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A high-ranking Mormon leader says the church policy against same-sex marriage was a revelation from God.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon Church is set to begin giving public tours of the religion's newest temple: A renovated historical tabernacle in Provo that nearly burned down in 2010.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Several hundred people with roots in the Mormon faith gathered in Salt Lake City on Saturday to renounce the church's new policies targeting gays and their children in the latest illustration of the fervor the rule changes have caused.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new Mormon church policy targeting gay members and their children has triggered a firestorm of backlash from church members of all political backgrounds.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A top Mormon leader is scheduled to give the keynote speech Tuesday at the opening day of a conservative conference in Utah that has elicited strong opposition from LGBT groups.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is naming L. Whitney Clayton as the new president of a second-tier governing body called the Quorum of the Seventy.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church's renovated history museum reopening this week in Salt Lake City features a small and surprising display about an uncomfortable part of the faith's history that for generations has been glossed over: polygamy.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church — the nation's largest sponsor of Boy Scout units — is keeping its longtime affiliation with the organization despite its decision to allow gay troop leaders.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church for the first time is appointing women to three high-level church councils previously reserved only for men.

There was a time when I swapped personal notes with “Beau” Biden.  Other than that we didn’t know each other face-to-face.  Five years ago he suffered what appeared to be a stroke and I wrote him and sent get-well wishes.  My brother died the same year at the age of forty-six after a second round fighting cancer...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon Church History museum is closing for one year for a total renovation of the 30-year-old building.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is putting some of the faith's most treasured artifacts on display for the first time in a new exhibit that opens to the public this week in Salt Lake City.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP/KTVB) - A Mormon leader is reiterating the church's opposition to gay marriage.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Church officials say they've seen a more than five-fold jump in applications after lowering the eligibility age for becoming a Mormon missionary. New numbers released this week show The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson says that the faith will lower its minimum age requirement for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women. Monson made the announcement Saturday at the faith's 182nd Semiannual General Conference in Salt Lake City...

Faithful Mormons gathered to hear words of inspiration from their leaders over the weekend during their church's semiannual general conference.