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The Church News, also known as LDS Church News, is a weekly tabloid-style addition to the Deseret News and MormonTimes, which is a newspaper based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). This publication is unique as it focuses exclusively on news related to the LDS Church.

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Latter-day Saints in South America share Christ's love during Easter

1 day ago | thechurchnews.com | Kaitlyn Bancroft

Latter-day Saints in the Church’s South America South Area honored Jesus Christ during the Easter season by participating in efforts and events that underscored the Church’s “Greater Love” invitation.
‘Come, Follow Me’ for April 21-27: What have Church leaders said about Doctrine and Covenants 37-40?

4 days ago | thechurchnews.com | Kaitlyn Bancroft

This week’s “Come, Follow Me” study guide covers Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, which includes revelation given through Joseph Smith to James Covel. Following are a few quotes from past and present Church leaders about these sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. Doctrine and Covenants 37“After the Church was organized in April 1830, persecution stagnated Church growth in New York while the number of members increased in neighboring Ohio.
Episode 236: Jerusalem and the miracle of Christ’s Resurrection at Easter with historian Richard Neitzel Holzapfel

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | Mary Richards |Joel Randall |Richard Neitzel Holzapfel

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Dedication, open house dates for 2 South American temples

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | Joel Randall

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced open house and dedication dates of two houses of the Lord in neighboring South American countries. The Antofagasta Chile Temple will be dedicated Sunday, June 15, by Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The Bahía Blanca Argentina Temple will be dedicated Sunday, Nov. 23, by Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Area presidency assignments for 2025-26 announced

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | David Schneider

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the Church’s 2025-2026 area leadership assignments. The area presidency changes will become effective Aug. 1. The Church has 24 administrative areas — six that cover the United States and the remaining 18 covering other countries. The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles preside over all affairs of the Church. The Church has 12 quorums of the Seventy.
First Presidency releases rendering of West Jordan Utah Temple

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | Scott Taylor

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released an exterior rendering of the West Jordan Utah Temple, coming a little more than a year after a house of the Lord for West Jordan, Utah, was announced by President Russell M. Nelson. The rendering shows the projected multistory edifice of approximately 85,000 square feet, the first house of the Lord for the city and one of 32 total temples dedicated, under construction or in planning in the state.
Media day offers first look at Nairobi Kenya Temple

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | Scott Taylor

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is offering a look at the interior and exterior of the Nairobi Kenya Temple, its first house of the Lord not only in Kenya but all of East Africa. Interior and exterior photographs and an accompanying video were released in conjunction with the new temple’s media day Monday, April 14, in Nairobi and upcoming public open house.
What have Church leaders said about Easter?

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | Kaitlyn Bancroft

This week’s “Come, Follow Me” study guide focuses on Easter, including Jesus Christ’s appearance in the Kirtland Temple on Easter Sunday, April 3, 1836. Following are a few quotes from past and present Church leaders about the sacred events of Easter. The Kirtland Temple“The Kirtland Temple has unusual significance in the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Watch or listen to 20 songs sung by 3 choirs during the April 2025 general conference

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | Christine Rappleye

Three choirs provided music for the April 2025 general conference — The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, a youth choir from northern Utah and a combined choir from Brigham Young University. They sang songs from “Hymns, the “Children’s Songbook” and from the new hymnbook project “Hymns — For Home and Church.”Seven of the songs were from the new hymnbook project. The Tabernacle Choir sang “Welcome Home” (no. 1027), “It Is Well with My Soul” (no. 1003) and “Close as a Quiet Prayer” (no. 1030).
How Palm Sunday in New Zealand involved an Apostle and shouts of hosanna in a house of the Lord

1 week ago | thechurchnews.com | Scott Taylor

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — On Palm Sunday, an Apostle and disciples of Jesus Christ raised the hallowed refrains of the Hosanna Shout in the house of the Lord. This moment came not on the actual Palm Sunday event more than two millennia ago and some 10,000 miles away, as Jesus Christ made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem amid shouts of hosanna on the Sunday before His atoning suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, His Crucifixion on Golgotha and His Resurrection from the Garden Tomb.