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| LDS Church Will Remove More Jews from Baptismal Records |
| A Salt Lake City genealogist recently discovered the
names of more than 200 notable Jews in the LDS Church's records of baptisms
for the dead, in violation of a 1995 agreement with Jewish organizations.
The discovery has now lead to renewed controversy over the practice and a
new agreement by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to remove
the names. Genealogist Helen Radkey discovered the names in her research and
alterted the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which negotiated the
new agreement with the Church. |
| Perpetual Education Fund May Lead to Future Church Growth |
| The recently announced Perpetual Education Fund
may provide a door to future growth for The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, says a recent Las Vegas Sun article. The article
includes an interview with three foreign missionaries serving in the
Las Vegas West Mission and comments from noted sociologist of
religion Armand Mauss, who says that the Perpetual Education Fund
will be a great benefit to the Church. |
| UVSC Honors Hinckleys with Doctorates |
| Utah Valley State College presented President Gordon B.
Hinckley and his wife, Marjorie P. Hinckley with honorary doctorates at its
commencement Friday. The honors came as the college, one of two major
institutions of higher education in Utah County, Utah, along with BYU,
awarded degrees to 2,638 students. UVSC is dominated by Mormon students and
faculty, although it is a state institution. |
| Mission Impossible: How Serving a Mission is Hard -- at least in Finland |
| Nearly two years ago, a reporter from the
Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat visited the Missionary Training
Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and there
met eight missionaries learning Finnish and preparing to serve as
missionaries in Finland. Now, as those eight missionaries are
completing their two years of service, reporter Laura Pekonen spent a
day with one of them, Elder Jeff Eschler of Salt Lake City,
discovering that his two years of service has changed him. |
| Pre-Columbian Equine Find in Southern Alberta |
| This just in on CBC Radio One's "As It
Happens." A Cardston, Alberta schoolteacher has found proof of
co-existence of horses and humans in pre-Columbian times. The site's
now being excavated by archaeologists from the University of Calgary
(the schoolteacher is now working on his M.Sc. in archaeology as a
result of his find). The site is the bottom of the St. Mary's River
reservoir which forms the SE border of the Blood Indian Reserve,
within walking distance of the Cardston temple. |
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