On Sunday at the Mormon stake near Alma School Road and University Drive in Mesa, five Hispanic boys dressed like missionaries in white shirts and ties fan out through the pews, bearing silver trays of bread chunks and water cups.

February 26, 2005

It’s been almost 27 years since the Mormon Church lifted its ban that had kept black males from the church’s priesthood.

SALT LAKE CITY - The 95-year-old president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints underwent surgery at a Salt Lake City hospital to remove a cancerous portion of his colon, church officials said.

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon church President Thomas S. Monson urged his faith's followers to embrace the power of prayer and to reach out to people in need.

Stan Way, a Latter-day Saint from Jasper, Ala., had just finished dinner out with some Mormon missionaries when he noticed a car slowing as it approached.

Americans’ level of religious tolerance may be tested in the coming months as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, seeks to do what no Mormon has done — win nomination and then election to the presidency of the United States.

Gordon B. Hinckley, who served as the 15th president and prophet of the Mormon Church, died Sunday at the age of 97 in Salt Lake City.

To this day, no Mormon has served longer in the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles than David Oman McKay the ninth of 15 presidents and prophets of the 12.3 million member church.

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormons should cling to their faith and church teachings in order to weather the problems and temptations they face daily in a tumultuous world, the church's president said at the close of a two-day church conference Sunday.

SALT LAKE CITY - There is no hint of a Mormon presence in the high-rise where the Beijing LDS branches meet.

An early morning fire Monday destroyed the Mesa Arizona Lehi Stake building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1430 N. Grand St.

Gov. Janet Napolitano has clashed often with powerful Mormon lawmakers during her first two years in office, but admits she doesn’t know much about the faith that motivates them.

September 21, 2004

The commentary of Robert Parker ("LDS church on wrong side of gay marriage," June 29) has several false statements and innuendos needing correction. Parker's views definitely are not representative of active members in good standing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The sting from hearing it was an arson-caused fire that reduced their church to rubble last November is still there. But when about 1,500 members of three wards attend Easter services Sunday at three scattered sites, their stake president says they’ll look beyond that loss without bitterness.

C.E. "Pep" Cooney, the longtime president and general manager of KPNX-TV (Channel 12) in Phoenix, died Wednesday at the age of 70.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church will lower its minimum age requirements for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women, the faith's president announced Saturday.

Are President Barack Obama and the Democrats political toast?

The Mormon church’s emphasis on precise order when choosing a deceased church president and prophet’s successor leaves Thomas Monson as the most likely choice for its next leader.