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Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

You only get 18 summers with your kids, but those winter nights? They’re prime for memory-making too. Get ready to ditch the ...

Plans after high school are already changing for young women who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, after the Church announced that it is changing the age that women can ...

Mormon church makes major rule change in bid to get more women serving missions - It has been heralded as one of the major ...

The Short Creek area of a few thousand people is now attracting new attention for the second largest measles outbreak in the ...

The first missionaries arrived in Bahía Blanca 13 years after Elder Melvin J. Ballard dedicated South America for the ...

Young child falls out of the back of a church bus onto the highway 4-year-old girl suffers a broken jaw as she falls from the back of a bus into the middle of a highway in Arkansa ...