Mormon church well prepared to handle leader death
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The Mormon Church is well prepared to deal with nearly unprecedented scrutiny resulting from the White House bid of one of its followers despite the death of influential church leader Gordon Hinckley.
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The spiritual head of the U.S. Episcopal Church said on Friday its leaders would likely respond in full next week to a request by the broader Anglican communion that it stop ordaining openly gay bishops and outlaw the blessing of same-sex marriages.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- In the West Bank, preparations began Tuesday for Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral, even though Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath told a Paris press conference that the Palestinian leader was &quot;very much alive&quot; and discussion of his
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U.S. evangelist Jerry Falwell has been laid to rest but it is premature to write the political obituary of the conservative Christian movement he once led.
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Israeli FM says his country&#39;s aim is to be ready for the day after Arafat who is suffering from mysterious illness. JERUSALEM - Israel must prepare for the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
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Now that the top-ranked team in the country is out of the way, the schedule isn&#39;t supposed to be more difficult for Brigham Young.
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By Carrie A. Moore Deseret Morning News  Active Latter-day Saints want their church to provide a "frank and honest" presentation of church history, unvarnished by attempts to sugar-coat the past in order to make it more palatable.
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Palestinians looked to their leadership to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat&#39;s fate in a French hospital on Wednesday as preparations gathered pace to bury the icon of the fight for a state.
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One of the Church of England's most senior bishops is warning that people will die unless Muslim leaders in Britain speak out in defence of the right to change faith.
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A procession will take place and people will gather at a church for the funeral of a firefighter who died on duty.
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The Greek Orthodox church was in mourning last night after a senior patriarch and three leading bishops were killed in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea.
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As a father mourned the unimaginable &#151; the loss of five of his children in a fire that also devastated another family that shared his home &#151; a religious leader let him know that his pain was shared by many.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Churchgoers in two communities stunned by the slaying of an expectant mother whose baby was cut from her womb grieved for the young woman Sunday and struggled to understand her grisly death.
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UMW professor says people should not expect quick, dramatic change in dynamics following death of longtime leader. As Palestinians mourn the death of their leader, Yasser Arafat, attention is shifting to who
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CAIRO -- Egypt prepared yesterday for a strictly controlled military funeral for Yasser Arafat where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects, but where the people -- among whom Arafat was by far more popular -- will be mostly shut out.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - Three days before "Super Tuesday" voting that could decide the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney detoured from the campaign trail on Saturday to attend the funeral of Mormon church leader Gordon Hinckley.
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In the days after Mormon Church president and prophet Gordon B. Hinckley is laid to rest, the men who served as his closest advisers will begin the process of choosing a successor.