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Jon M. Huntsman Jr. (former Governor of Utah) has resigned yesterday as United States Ambassador to China. There is speculation that Ambassador Hunstman as well as former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney may be eying for 2012 presidential bid. January 22, 2011, Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Republican Straw Poll, with 35 percent, while Rep. [...]
The videos created by the Church are stunning. I remember watching the Lamb of God video many years ago; it was amazing. Now the Church is updating the set of their motion picture studio. Look out Hollywood, here comes good, decent, quality movies! The Audiovisual Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [...]
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Church’s First Presidency offered the benediction today at the inauguration for Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Lt. Gov. Greg Bell. Elders M. Russell Ballard, Quentin L. Cook and Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were also in attendance along with many other community leaders. [...]
DECEMBER 17 – The historic Provo Tabernacle was heavily damaged overnight by a four-alarm fire that is believed to have begun in the building’s second story. Firefighters responded to the fire after it was reported at 2:43 a.m., but the intensity of the fire made it impossible for them to fight it from inside the [...]
President Thomas S. Monson’s dedication of the Kyiv Ukraine Temple on August 29, 2010, fulfills a prophecy made 19 years earlier by President Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. On September 12, 1991, then-Elder Packer and Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles stood on a [...]
A man shot and killed a Mormon bishop at a chapel in Visalia, California and then was later shot dead by police Sunday afternoon. Police and church officials identified the slain bishop as Clay Sannar, 40, of the Visalia 2nd Ward. Visalia Stake spokesman Ralph Jordan said Sannar was conducting interviews after the three-hour block [...]
FamilySearch, a world leader in historic records preservation and access, announced the addition of over 200 million new searchable historic records representing 18 countries to its online database. The new records were added to the hundreds of millions FamilySearch published earlier this year at an event in Salt Lake City, Utah. The number of records [...]
More than a century has passed since the public open house was held for the Salt Lake Temple, but an exhibit featuring a 1:32 scaled replica of the Mormon temple opened today that offers an open house experience of the magnificent building. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled an 88-inch tall, near-identical [...]
A Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment equates Christians who believe in “end times prophecies” with violent terrorists and states that radical extremists are “stockpiling” food in fear of Obama administration regulations that may facilitate the occurrence of prophesied events. This newly uncovered document is just the latest in a long sordid line of training [...]
