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Churchwide News
| LDS Church Announces Three More Temples in California |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints announced Friday that it will build three additional temples
in California, bringing the total in the state to seven, the most in
any US State outside of Utah. The announcement generated excitement
among local members near Sacramento and near Redlands and Newport
Beach, California, where the three temples will be built. The
announcement also brought news articles in the Orange County
Register, Los Angeles Times, and Sacramento Bee in addition to an
Associated Press article that appeared in many other newspapers,
especially in California. |
| Reporter Finds That Nauvoo Lives |
| Copley News Service reporter Vera Foss Bradshaw took at
tourist's view of Nauvoo, Illinois in an article published in yesterday's
Springfield State Journal-Register and elsewhere. Bradshaw told readers of
the delight of visiting the restored buildings and exhibits of the town,
sometimes called "The Williamsburg of the West." |
| George R. Hill III, Former GA and Scientist, dead at 79 |
| Renowned chemical engineering professor and former
member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints George R. Hill III died Sunday of cancer. Elder Hill was a
long-time chemical and fuels engineering professor at the University of Utah
and member of the National Academy of Engineering. He also served in the
Area Presidencies of the Philippines/Micronesia area and Utah South area
while serving as a general authority. He was 79. |
| Anti-Polygamy Activists Using Genealogy Software to Build Cases |
| By the time 17-year-old Jolene Palmer escaped from the
polygamous clan she was raised in, her father had three wives and her
grandfather had wed her stepmother. Palmer is now one of many former
polygamy members charting their tangled family trees for the anti-polygamy
group Tapestry Against Polygamy and the anti-child abuse group For Kids' Sake. |
| LDS Church Makes Practical Efforts for the Environment |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints will join with other denominations as Earth Day is celebrated
this weekend in Utah. An interdenominational discussion at St. Mark's
Cathedral and Salt Lake's First Unitarian Church were held on Monday
to receive updates from Utah's Population and Environmental
Coalition. And an article in the Deseret News discussed the
environmental efforts of each denomination. |
| LDS Church Growth and Families: Children of Record |
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and not 81,000 -- baptisms of children of record each year. If the
rates of baptism of children of record were even on par with world
population growth, one would expect 172,000 such baptisms each year,
or over twice as many as at present. |
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