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UPDATE: Vote for one of our six finalists here! LDS Bookstore, in an effort to support LDS scholars in their educational pursuits, has announced their plans for their annual scholarship program. They are offering a $1,000 scholarship to the first place winner, with a $500 scholarship awarded to the first runner-up. The winners will also receive a free bag of their choice …

Nearly 50 years after Mormons first put down roots here, opening small outpost churches converting Buddhists, animists and other Thais, the fast-growing Utah-based faith has just announced plans to construct its first temple in Thailand, enabling their families to be “sealed” together for eternity, posthumous weddings for dead ancestors and other “highest sacraments.” The project, one of three international outposts …

Italy is timelessly historic. A standing religious memorial, its rock-paved roads bring visitors back to when Peter walked the streets of Rome. Back to when art wasn’t just a way of making a living, but evidence that God is the ultimate creator and  inspiration. One day among the cracked walls and aged paint of the monuments, leaves visitors speechless yet disappointed. Their photos will never express the …

A 19-year-old Roy High School graduate and Western Nebraska Community College soccer player died Wednesday night from an E. coli infection while serving an LDS mission in Argentina. Brittany Scadlock was 10 days away from her 20th birthday. “We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Sister Brittany Nicole Scadlock,” LDS Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said. “Sister Scadlock began …

Eric Moutsos doesn’t believe he should have to leave his personal convictions at home when he walks out the door to go to work — particularly his religious beliefs. But his former boss, Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank, says when an officer shows up to work for his department, that officer is expected to do their job. And if …

Two Albuquerque Mormon missionaries were held captive by someone they were trying to witness to last week. Now the two are speaking out about the situation, which may have turned dangerous if they hadn’t escaped. Elder Zuniga Delgado and Elder Michael Whitaker were witnessing in their apartment complex off of Montgomery Boulevard NE last Tuesday. They met a man at …

With candid stories and warm humor, former First Lady Laura Bush reminded RootsTech 2015 attendees that “all we know we have is now.” The phrase has important meaning in the Bush family and was used to encourage everyone to cherish the moments we have now. Bush spoke freely of her family throughout the address. After discussing what everyone in the …

Today, the United States honors the founding fathers of the country and all US presidents. But did you know that many US Presidents have interesting encounters with LDS prophets? Here are five stories that few people know about. Martin Van Buren and Joseph Smith After much persecution in Missouri, the Prophet Joseph Smith traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with …

The biggest surprise of college football’s National Signing Day is Motekiai Langi, a 6’7″, 410-pound teenager from Tonga with so little football experience that people thought he was a hoax. BYU gave Langi a scholarship, despite the fact that head coach Bronco Mendenhall met him for a grand total of 15 minutes and, as Deadspin notes, his entire recruiting evaluation was …

Originally reported by Barbie Latza Nadeau for The Daily Beast: ROME, Italy — On the outskirts of Rome along the ancient Catholic pilgrim route known as the Via Francigena and not far from a giant shopping center featuring a massive IKEA and the French do-it-yourself Mecca called Leroy Merlin, cranes are hoisting giant spires onto the top of a Baroque-revival-style …