Topic: Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - One of the wives of Warren Jeffs has broken away from the private Arizona compound once ruled by the jailed polygamist leader, officials said on Thursday.The 25-year-old woman, whose name was not released, left the Fundamentalist Church ...
Police says gun-toting man killed outside Mormon temple in Utah also was carrying macheteUtah authorities say a gun-toting man fatally shot by police outside a Mormon Temple on Christmas Day also had a machete that he used to chop up the fence ...
The Mormon settlers applied for statehood in 1849 under the name Deseret, a word from the sacred Book of Mormon meaning " Before the U.S. Congress and the national administration would assent to statehood for Utah, Mormon leaders were required to discontinue ...
The period of settlement and territorial status is notable for the ending of the quest (1845-47) for a Mormon homeland, the settlers' wrestling with an arid environment, the contest for sovereignty between Utah and the United States, and the conflict between settlers ...
Plural marriage is as old as the Bible. Those who continued forming plural marriages were eventually excommunicated and became the Fundamentalist Mormons, which includes various sects including the FLDS, the AUB, the Priesthood Work and the Independent Fundamentalists not associated with any ...
On January 4, 1896, Utah was admitted as the 45th State of the United States of America. The Mormon Leader, Brigham Young, decided on this area, which was part of Mexico, to shield his group from the religious persecution it felt in ...
The 2008 Deseret Church Almanac estimates that there just under six million followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons, in the United States and slightly under thirteen million worldwide. There is an annual ...
Why is the Church of the Latter-Day Saints ( Mormons ) the fastest growing religion in the world? As I began to meet a number of coworkers who were Mormon, my opinion started to change. In a local Mormon school where I ...
With all the hoopla over the recent events in Eldorado, Texas and the so called "YFZ Ranch," America's interest has been stirred up. However, the truth goes far deeper, reaching way back into the history of the Mormon movement and into America's ...
It was the single biggest obstacle preventing Utah from obtaining statehood. Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, continued to practice polygamy because they believed that since the practice was an integral part of their religion, they were ...
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