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Church Continues to Monitor Mormon Missionary Safety in Ukraine

News Release — 9 May 2014Due to ongoing uncertainty in Ukraine, 67 missionaries formerly serving in the Ukraine Donetsk Mission who had previously been transferred to other areas within Ukraine will be reassigned to missions within their home countries to complete the remainder of their service. Forty-one missionaries who anticipated serving in Ukraine have been reassigned to other missions.
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#ItWasMom: New Church Video Honors Mothers

News Story — 8 May 2014The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a Mother’s Day initiative Wednesday to celebrate the divine calling of mothers and women around the world. The initiative includes a YouTube video titled “It Was Mom,” which depicts all that a mother does in the lives of her children.
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Apostles Using Twitter to Share Gospel, Communicate With the World

Blog Post — 7 May 2014The Church has maintained official Facebook and Google+ pages on the behalf of Church leaders for some time now. Some senior Church leaders will now be using those channels and Twitter to personally share their words, thoughts and teachings.
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Mormon Helping Hands Volunteers

Participate in Arkansas Tornado Cleanup

News Story — 6 May 2014Hundreds of Mormon Helping Hands volunteers gathered in central Arkansas on Saturday, 3 May 2014, to help clean up debris in communities devastated by recent tornadoes. Storms tore through the area on 27 April, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses in the communities of Vilonia, Mayflower and surrounding towns.
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Church Dedicates Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple, 143rd in the World

News Release — 4 May 2014The Church’s 143rd temple and Florida’s second was dedicated on Sunday, 4 May 2014. President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presided over the dedicatory services.
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Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites | 2 May

Blog Post — 2 May 2014MormonNewsroom.org pulls stories from its international Newsroom websites to show what leaders and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live.
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Elder Holland Surprises Mormon Youth Preparing for Cultural Event in Fort Lauderdale

Blog Post — 1 May 2014During a trip to Florida last week, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was in Plantation to make a surprise visit to more than 1,200 Latter-day Saint youth. The young men and young women, ages 12 to 18, were at the Fort Lauderdale Stake Center on Saturday, 26 April 2014, to rehearse for the Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple cultural celebration.
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The Process of Building a Mormon Temple

Background Feature — 30 April 2014The process of building a Mormon temple is much like the construction of any other building, but it is also unique in many ways because of the significant role temples play in Latter-day Saint theology. This article is about the construction of Mormon temples, of which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operates more than 140 across the globe.
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Mormon and Seventh-day Adventist Leaders Discuss Faith, Family and Religious Freedom

Blog Post — 30 April 2014On Thursday, 24 April, Elder L. Tom Perry and Elder Ronald A. Rasband met with senior leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at their worldwide headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. Elder Perry and Elder Rasband were warmly received, enjoyed a tour of the faith’s headquarters facilities and discussed opportunities for partnering on religious freedom initiatives.
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Bay Area Interfaith Group Honoring
Christ Through Song and Service

News Story — 29 April 2014Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are joining fellow Christians in the Bay Area for a fourth-straight year to honor Jesus Christ through song and service.
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