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News about Mormons, Mormonism, and the LDS Church |
General News |
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. |
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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. |
Local News |
Guadalajara Mexico Temple Dedicated |
President Gordon B. Hinckley of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated the church's 105th
operating Temple yesterday, sealing the Temple's cornerstone in a
short ceremony and dedicating the building a little later. In the
dedicatory prayer for the Guadalajara Temple, President Hinckley
blessed both the people and the land in which the building is located. |
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Former Missionary Sentenced for Sexual Assault during Mission |
A former LDS missionary plead guilty Monday to
five counts of sexual assault committed while he was serving an LDS mission
in the North Carolina Charlotte Mission and was sentenced to five years in
prison for the crime. Matthew Alan Nash, 27, of Salt Lake City, has admitted
to molesting at least 22 children in both North Carolina and Utah since age 16. |
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Funeral Held for LDS Mother and Son Killed in Car Crash |
More than 1,000 LDS Church members in Las Vegas
attended the funeral of Holly Barton and her eight-year-old son Benjamin
while giving thanks for the miraculous recovery of husband and father James
Barton, who was able to attend the funeral just five days after waking from
a coma and a week after the car crash that took his wife and son as they
traveled to the broadcast dedication of the Winter Quarters Temple. |
Sports |
Missionary, U Michigan Choose Each Other, Sight Unseen |
In a leap of faith by both Spencer Brinton and the
University of Michigan football coaches, Brinton is on the University of
Michigan campus starting classes today, less than a week after returning
from an LDS mission to Durban, South Africa. Brinton, who was San Diego
State's starting quarterback before leaving on his mission, had never seen
the Ann Arbor campus before, nor had he met the coaches. For their part,
they had never met Brinton, nor seen him play in person. But they are giving
him a chance to compete for a quarterback spot on the team. |
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U Wisconsin's Bower Transfers to BYU |
Sophomore basketball player Ricky Bower is
transferring to BYU and, by so doing, is also returning to his
family's college roots. His father, Wayne, played on the Cougar
football team in the early 1970s and his older brother, Danny, played
basketball at BYU for two years during the late 90's. In addition,
Bower's mother is also a former BYU student. |
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LDS Quarterback Expects All-Canadian Season |
The University of Calgary's Lincoln
Blumell is headed into his final season, and hopes to lead the
Dinosaurs to a win in the playoffs this year, possibly even getting
the team even further. "My main goal is to help the team win a
playoff game and then win the Canada West title. I feel a real
emergency to get that done. From there, the goal is to get to the
Vanier Cup and win it. And, if it all falls into place, maybe an
All-Canadian selection." But just four years ago Blumell was
finishing a two-year LDS mission, during which he hardly touched a
football. |
Politics |
Senator Smith Suggests Sanctions over Religious Restrictions in France, Europe |
Oregon's US Senator Gordon Smith, a member of The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, suggested yesterday that the US impose
restrictions on European visitors because of their country's restrictions on
minority religions. The comments came as the Senate's European Affairs
subcommittee, which Smith chairs, reviewed proposed French legislation that
the US State Department considers an affront to religious freedom. |
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Hill New Deputy Parliamentary Leader |
Official Opposition Leader Stockwell Day,
in response to this week's resignations of House Leader Chuck Strahl
and Deputy Parliamentary Leader Deborah Grey, both former Canadian
Alliance Members of Parliament, reorganised his leadership team.
Grant Hill, a member of the Calgary Alberta Foothills Stake, was
named as the new Deputy Parliamentary Leader. |
Internet |
In praise of a day unplugged |
In an era of e-mail, cell phones,
pagers, home satellite dishes and "constant connectivity" to the
Internet, many people are rediscovering the need for a Sabbath - a
day, an hour or a season when they consciously disconnect from the
machine to rest, rebalance their lives and restore their perspectives. |
People |
Elder Learns Mission is Hard, Great |
Salt Lake Tribune religion writer, Peggy
Fletcher Stack, has been following the progress of LDS missionary
Elder Colin Timothy, who is serving a two-year mission in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. "I got up at 6 a.m. today, no problem," he proudly wrote his
family of his second day in the LDS Missionary Training Center
located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. "It is great, except that I couldn't
sleep all night," Elder Timothy added. |
Arts & Entertainment |
Living Scriptures Video Series Gets Attention at Film Sites |
Three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson may
have to wait for his chance to film a new movie while history is
being recorded by Heber J. Grant, Lorenzo Snow and Harold B. Lee. The
prophets will be filming first, as the historical site of the Stuhr
Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska is going Hollywood. The drama, part
of a 14-episode series being filmed by "The Living Scriptures,"
follows the lives of the prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. |
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Book of Mormon Epic to Be Produced for Giant (IMAX) Screen Release |
A group of accomplished LDS filmmakers have
begun development on the first of a series of epic motion pictures
based on stories from the Book of Mormon. The slate of films will be
presented in the large screen format (i.e., IMAX). |
Business |
LDS Millionaire Launches Ambitious Effort to Help Homeless |
When it comes to helping the
disadvantaged and the disenfranchised in the world today, it
sometimes seems that too many people "talk the talk" but don't ever
"walk the walk." John Volken, owner of United Furniture Warehouse in
Canada, a furniture company with $200 million in annual sales, hopes
to demonstrate that one person can make a difference. |
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Redlands California Notice Confuses Neighbors, City |
The news that the LDS Church will build a
small Temple in Redlands, California led to a city council session on
the planned building Tuesday night. Councilman Kacey Haws, an LDS
Church member, tried to give his fellow city councilmen an idea of
the Temple's size, purpose and impact. But meanwhile, recent articles
in local newspapers showed a good deal of confusion and speculation
among Redlands citizens and others in California's "Inland Empire"
about the building. |
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Marriott Abandons Bid for Le Meridien in Final Round |
Marriott, International, the giant hotel chain run by LDS
Church member J. Willard "Bill" Marriott Jr., dropped its bid for the Le
Meridien chain of luxury hotels after it wasn't named the preferred bidder
in the final round. The auction of the 150-hotel chain was part of the
auction of the hotel properties of Compass Group PLC, in what has been
called the world's largest hotel auction. Marriott had been expected to win
Le Meridien, and dropping its bid led to the company's stock price to fall
5% yesterday. |
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