LDS Church Aids Ethiopia

The LDS Church is shipping 4,000 tons of wheat to famine-stricken areas of Ethiopia. 220 twenty-foot containers of wheat are being packed and shipped from an LDS-Church-owned farm near Cambridge, England, with the assistance of volunteers from local LDS units.

LDS Church says it's neutral on China trade bill

An LDS General Authority expressing strongly-held personal views apparently led some journalists to wonder if the LDS Church had taken a position on the Chinese free trade bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday. Elder Donald L. Staheli of the Seventy met with some members of Congress prior to the vote on the measure and expressed his personal opinion of the leglislation. But at least one of the members of Congress that he spoke to said that Elder Staheli made it clear that the Church wasn't taking a position.

U.S. Senate Confirms Two LDS Judges

In the wake of a deal struck Monday between Democrat and Republican leaders, the US Senate confirmed 16 Federal Judges, including LDS Church members Roger L. Hunt and Kent J. Dawson. Both men are from and will serve in Nevada, and were nominated by President Clinton at the suggestion of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) who is also an LDS Church member, leading some in Nevada to criticize the nomination.

The church works to improve its image in England

Spencer J. Condie, Area Authority President for the Northern Europe area of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has invited the BYU School of Family Life to travel to England. Four BYU professors from the School of Family Life will help the English government to strengthen families and build morale. James Harper, Wendy Watson, Randal Day and Thomas Holman will offer lectures and firesides relating to surviving the teen years, strengthening marriages, single parenting and finding a marriage partner.

Erie Canal celebrates a landmark anniversary

A New York historian reports that Brigham Young, who was later the second prophet of the LDS Church, worked on the Erie Canal in 1825, just prior to its opening. The historian mentioned the event in connection with the 175th anniversary of the opening of the canal.

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