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| Teen Girls Fleeing Polygamous FLDS Church While Green Children Seek Leniency for Father |
| An associated press article appearing in
newspapers around the nation today tells the story of a 15-year-old
girl who has walked away from the largest polygamous group, the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the
same time that a Reuters article reports that polygamist Tom Green's
wife and children are pleading for his return to the family ahead of
his sentencing Friday. Caroline Cooke says she now feels free living
on her uncle's Colorado farm, and the anti-polygamy groups supporting
her are calling for a 14-year-old, Ruby Jessop, to be released by the
Hilldale, Utah-based FLDS Church because she is being held against
her will. |
| First Sunstone Placed on Nauvoo Temple |
| The Nauvoo Temple started to look a more like the
original Nauvoo Temple on Monday when the first Sunstone was put into
place on the outside of the building. The stones, carved to look like
the original stones, cap limestone pilasters around the outside of
the building. Moonstones and starstones will also be featured on the
pilasters, which look like columns embedded into the side of the
building. |
| Stamford Ward to Hold Family History Festival Saturday |
| Neil Thompson thought his relatives came from Great
Britain and the United States, but thanks to a helpful neighbor, he has
discovered the Family History Center and found ancestors in Australia, New
Zealand, and India. The 62-year-old English native knew there was an
enormous amount of information compiled by the Mormons, but he thought the
records were only in Salt Lake. Fortunately neighbor Sherry Young, mother of
former NFL great Steve Young, told Thompson he could access many of those
records at her chapel - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in
Stamford. |
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