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| Oregon Abuse Lawsuit Seeks LDS Church Financial Information |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is
fighting a legal request for financial statements detailing its income and
the value of its assets. The request comes as part of an Oregon lawsuit in
which Plaintiff Jeremiah Scott, 22, accused the LDS Church of failing to
warn his mother that Franklin Richard Curtis was a pedophile. Curtis boarded
in Scott's Portland home and abused him at age 11. He was convicted of the
abuse in 1994 and died in 1995. |
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| Catholic Decision to Exclude Mormon Baptisms Attracts Wide Attention |
| A Catholic Church decision, announced Tuesday in the official
Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, says that LDS baptisms will no
longer be accepted as valid by the Catholic Church. Since Tuesday's
announcement, the change in policy has made national news in the US, carried
in the Associated Press' wire service and printed in newspapers worldwide. |
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| Local News |
| Church Plans Missionary Housing Complex, Parking Garage for Nauvoo |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints won
approval for a #3.8 million housing complex and a $2 million parking garage
Tuesday, July 10th from the Nauvoo city council in one of its first actions
under a new planning and zoning code. The 60-unit complex will serve as
housing for missionaries working at the Church's historic sites in Nauvoo
while the 200-space parking facility will accommodate visitor parking for
the new Nauvoo Temple and the historic sites. |
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| Sports |
| Christensen Gets New Start with Dodgers' AAA Affiliate |
| McKay Christensen's baseball career has taken a
number of interesting turns over the years, both up and down. While
not always under his control, Christensen knows that at least some of
the rough spots have been the direct result of his own decisions.
Take his two year hiatus to serve an LDS mission to Japan for
example. Christensen knew that he would have a difficult time coming
back but choose to go anyway, fulfilling a commitment that he felt
most strongly. "I think there's no doubt that going on a mission for
two years and then coming back was definitely something that has been
a difficult obstacle in terms of baseball," he said. |
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| Politics |
| 4 of 5 Mormon Senators Support Stem Cell Research |
| Two more LDS Senators announced their agreement with Utah
Senator Orrin Hatch's support of research using embryonic stem cells.
Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada and Republican Mike Crapo of Idaho joined
Hatch and Oregon Republican Gordon Smith in urging US President George W.
Bush to allow federally-funded research using the cells, which come from
human embryos, usually those that will be discarded after fertility
procedures. The announcements leave only Utah Senator Bob Bennett undecided
on the issue. |
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| LDS Law Professor Named Assistant Attorney General |
| US President George W. Bush recently named LDS law
professor Jay S. Bybee to be Assistant Attorney General for the
Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice. If confirmed by
the Senate, Bybee will function as the legal advisor to the President
and all the executive branch agencies, preparing written opinions and
oral advice in response to queries from the Counsel to the President
and from the various agencies of the executive branch. Bybee is
currently on the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas'
William S. Boyd School of Law. |
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| Internet |
| LDSCaNews Welcomes Managing Editor |
| Lethbridge-based LDSCaNews, the only news
service specifically written for Canadian Latter-day Saints, recently
expanded its editorial team to consist of a Managing Editor. The new
position will be filled by Jeremiah Patrick and he's excited to be a part of
the new but growing news service. |
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| People |
| LDS Parenting & Special Education Expert Glenn Latham Dead at 70 |
| Utah State University Professor Emeritus Glenn
I. Latham died suddenly July 10th. Latham is best known for his
parenting workshops and for his books, "The Power of Positive
Parenting" and "What's a parent to do?" But professionally he was
also widely known for his work with the disabled, including founding
the Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center at USU. Latham was 70. |
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| Business |
| Ratings Say Bonneville Format Change Right Move |
| The Spring radio ratings for Chicago show strong
ratings for Bonneville International's new radio station, WDRV, indicating
that Bonneville's critics may have been wrong about the station's change of
format from classical to classic hits. The ratings gave WDRV, "The Drive," a
2.2 percent share of listeners, up from 1.3 percent when the station was
known as WNIB last Winter. They also show that WDRV didn't take listeners
away from its sister station, WLUP. |
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