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| English-Speakers Now Less than 50% of LDS Church Members |
| The LDS Church News reported Saturday that the
proportion of Church members that speak English fell below 50% for the first
time last month. The change came as the Church passed the 11 million mark
and growth outside the US continues at twice the growth rate in the US. |
| LDS Church Struggles with Who to Please over Mountain Meadows Buttons |
| Since you can't please everyone all the time,
you're often left trying to figure out who to please. When
contractors building a new monument at the site of the Mountain
Meadows Massacre near Cedar City, Utah uncovered the remains of
several victims and buttons and other property that belonged to the
victims, the Church quickly re-buried the remains. But recently the
status of the buttons and the other property has become uncertain. |
| LDS Church Takes Mountain-Meadows Buttons to Arkansas |
| The LDS Church decided last week to give the artifacts
accidentally uncovered last year at Mountain Meadows to a Museum in
Harrison, Arkansas. Glen Leonard, director of the LDS Church's Museum of
Church History and Art, traveled to Harrison on Friday to "indefinately
loan" the artifacts to the Carroll County Historical Society. |
| LDS Church Seeks Italian Recognition, Sponsorship |
| The LDS Church recently started the process to
become a "concordate" or state-sponsored church in Italy. If successful, the
effort would not only gain the Church a little money from the Italian
government, like other churches recognized by the Italian government, but
also raise its profile in the country. |
| Texas Town Sued by Mormon Family Sees Signs of Stigma |
| Two recent articles discuss the struggles of a
small Texas town in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision on
public prayer before high school football games. The town of Santa Fe
made history in June when the US Supreme Court rejected school
officials' bid to protect student-led prayer before football games.
The ruling was the culmination of five years of local activism, most
of it supporting the school district. |
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