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“Don’t Let the Mormons Convert You”: How One Woman Failed to Listen to Her Friend and Ended Up Mormon

“Don’t let the Mormons convert you,” a friend told me before I left the Philippines for Utah in 1987.

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Meet the 8 new General Authority Seventies announced in general conference

Eight new General Authority Seventies were announced and sustained on March 31 during the Saturday afternoon session of the 188th Annual General Conference.

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More and more LDS chaplains are bringing God, not necessarily a Mormon God, to the troops

A soldier makes his first kill. He may feel guilty, confused, sad, scared, scarred or any range of emotions.

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Mitt Romney does not reflect Utah values

That both Orrin Hatch and Mitt Romney are Mormons makes no difference, of course, to Utah voters.

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Tribune’s coverage of the LDS conference belongs in the Deseret News

I thought the Deseret News was the designated source of news for the Mormon faithful. During the current LDS general conference sessions, The Tribune has devoted a large portion of its paper to Mormon news and stories. Also, the coverage has not been confined to the local news section but has dominated the “so-called” main national section.

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Prominent African American LDS speaker calls on church to address racism

A prominent African American LDS speaker is calling on the church to address issues of racism.

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Church Announces Closure of 2 Missionary Training Centers

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced it will close two missionary training centers. The training centers in Santiago, Chile, and Madrid, Spain, will close in January 2019. This decision comes as Church leaders continue to seek the best use of resources worldwide according to the needs and demands of each area.

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Making a Book of Mormon epic takes epic crowdsourcing

Writer-director-actor Darin Southam has always wondered one thing.

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A woman was shocked to see her name in a Mormon church-compiled dossier — which she says was designed to discredit her birth mother

Last week, a 35-year-old woman, who was adopted as an infant by a Mormon couple, discovered her name in an unexpected place: It was in the first item on a list of damaging information an LDS Church-hired attorney had compiled about her birth mother.

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Woman sues Mormon church after alleging a ‘self-proclaimed predator’ in charge of missionary training raped her in a ‘secret room’ in 1984

A woman who claims she was raped by the president of the Latter-Day Saints Missionary Training Center in Utah is suing the Mormon church.

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Doctor who ‘used own sperm to impregnate patient’ was former Mormon temple president

A fertility doctor accused of secretly using his own sperm to impregnate a patient undergoing artificial insemination previously served as the president of a Latter-day Saints Church temple.

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Former Utah pitcher now with Dodgers’ organization grateful for Mormon mission to Japan

Days before starting his second season in the minor leagues, a reporter asked Great Lakes Loons’ pitcher Riley Ottesen about his Mormon mission to Japan.

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