Mormon Church

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Mormon Church

A church founded by Joseph Smith at Palmyra in western New York in 1830 and having its headquarters since 1847 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its doctrines are based chiefly on the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and other revelations expounded by church leaders. Also called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Mormon Church - church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormons

Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations

Latter-Day Saint, Mormon - a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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He looked and saw the Mormon church careering drunkenly a hundred feet away.

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This new ruling comes one year after a July 2018 fatal shooting at a Mormon church in rural Fallon, Nevada, as well as on the heels of recent mass shootings that have put pressure on governments and institutions to address the issues.

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Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith is an engrossing survey of the Mormon Church through the 1800s, and of the man called upon to lead them into the seemingly promised land.

Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith

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Eric Hawkins, a spokesman for the Mormon church, earlier told a US TV channel that the detained individuals were church volunteers.

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Ure, Stop the Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2018, 294 pp., $18 (paperback).

Stop the Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune

Elder Ronald Rasband, one of 12 men known as Apostles who govern the Mormon Church, says the choice of Rome is based on its history as the center of Christianity.

Italy's first ever Mormon temple opens

Fallon (Nevada) [USA], Jul 23 ( ANI ): The Nevada Police arrested a suspect for shooting at a Mormon church in Fallon, which left one dead and one wounded.

1 dead in shooting at Nevada church, suspect arrested

SALT LAKE CITY -- For more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon Church formed an ideal pair as they helped each other expand their organizations and build their brands while molding countless young men through bow knots, pinewood derby races and campouts.

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Stop the Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune offers a powerful expose that should be in social issues, media history, and any Utah collection alike, and considers how the Mormon Church tried to squelch and destroy a paper that was critical of its activities and tried to expose its secrets.