The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...

The church, whose members are often known as Mormons, has grown from a small community to 17.5 million members around the ...

Mourners remembered Russell M. Nelson, the surgeon-turned-faith leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as both a spiritual and literal "healer of hearts" during a funeral service ...

Tickets for a national touring production of “The Book of Mormon,” the Tony-winning musical by the creators of “South Park,” go on sale Friday. Part of the Broadway in Scranton series, it will play at ...

Newly-released police bodycam footage shows the moment cops in Michigan gun down Mormon church killer Thomas Jacob Sanford after he shot and killed four congregants. The tense video, obtained by Fox ...

(RNS) — This is how we conquer the hatred and prejudice of the world: not with an eye for an eye, but with an inundation of love. President Nelson would smile on this response, I think. (RNS) — This ...

A day before a shooter killed four people and set fire to a church in Michigan, students at a football game in Colorado chanted vulgar anti-Mormon slurs against the same religious organization. The ...

FILE - The opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference is shown Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) FILE - The opening session of the two-day Mormon ...

On Sept. 23, 1995, President Gordon B. Hinckley stood before the women of the Relief Society and unveiled what has since become one of the most cited, celebrated and contested texts in modern ...