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BYU student pursues medicine after life-altering volunteer work in Haiti
The operating room in the poor, Bon Samaritan Hospital in Limbé, Haiti is humble with a hard concrete floor and outdated operating tools. But all Ariana Harris notices as she performs a surgery is the...
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Terrorist attacks affect travel around the world and at BYU
Recent terrorist attacks have claimed hundreds of lives. Twelve lives were taken in the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in 2015. One hundred and thirty people were killed in November in the Paris...
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Suicide bomber kills 10, wounds 15 in Istanbul tourist area
ISTANBUL— A suicide bomber affiliated with the Islamic State group detonated a bomb in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people — nine of them...
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Civil rights activist and Baptist minister speaks at BYU
He was in Washington, D.C. when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream. He marched from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate for African-Americans’ voting rights. He’s a respected religious...
View ArticleGov. Herbert, Interfaith Roundtable encourages Utah public to attend...
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable chairman were among a few officials who urged members of the public to be "open to the ideas and beliefs of others" during the kick off of...
View ArticleMillennials keeping their faith
Timothy O’Malley is a millennial, but he is certainly not a “none.” According to O’Malley, the 33-year-old director of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, a Pew research study showing millennials...
View ArticleUtah’s homelessness doesn’t have to be hopelessness
SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Herbert, R-Utah, rallied alongside Utah’s service organizations and invited all citizens to “step up” and donate money on their tax forms in behalf of the homeless throughout the...
View ArticleBYU to host Seder dinner for Passover
The public can join BYU students and faculty in celebrating the Passover this spring. The Department of Religious Education will host the Seder Service, an educational evening and catered meal with all...
View ArticleUtah’s Refugee Day of Prayer unites diverse peoples
SALT LAKE CITY — Religions from across the globe were represented at the annual Refugee Day of Prayer as Utah refugees gathered together to celebrate and join in worship. Utah’s Lutheran Immigration...
View ArticleElder Holland urges support in war against pornography
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke candidly against the harmful affects of pornography and ways to overcome it at the Utah Coalition Against Pornography Conference on...
View ArticleVatican Observatory Director: Don’t be ‘too practical, too rational’ with...
Scientists, scholars and professors spoke at the Second Interpreter Science and Mormonism Symposium on the theme, "Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit," on Saturday at Utah Valley University.
View ArticleBYU religious department addresses Christian views of life after death
BYU's Religious Education department is hosting a new public conference on different Christian faiths’ views of life after death on March 17-19 in the Joseph Smith Building Auditorium.
View ArticleParis attacks fugitive shot, detained
Two French police officials have told The Associated Press that Salah Abdeslam, the main fugitive from Islamic extremist attacks in Paris in November, has been arrested in Belgium's capital after four...
View ArticleNew church website encourages LDS women to serve refugees
The LDS Church launched a website on Monday to support their new "I Was a Stranger" refugee relief effort.
View ArticleSister Mary R. Durham: A Child’s Guiding Gift
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were given three ideas for how parents in the church can increase the spiritual capacity of their children for when they are not in the home.
View ArticleMormons not strangers to a crisis of faith
Kanokphol Limpanasriphong Young, a BYU student from Thailand, was baptized a member of the LDS Church five years ago. After about a year he saw comments and literature about the church that caused him...
View ArticleWomen’s Conference 2016: Responding to Honest Questions about Our Church
Kim Farah and Robert Millet spoke in the Wilkinson Center Friday afternoon about responding to people’s honest questions about the church in a tactful and appreciative way. Farah is a public relations...
View ArticlePalestinian Quaker a comfortable minority at BYU
Mai Zaru grew up as a Quaker living in Palestine under Israeli occupation. She was born in Jerusalem and lived in Ramallah, amid violence and never-ending chaos, yet her experiences have not tarnished...
View ArticleMormon missionaries to stay in Russia despite new law
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon missionaries will remain in Russia despite the country’s new anti-terrorism law, which will put greater restrictions on religious work starting later this month. In a...
View ArticleA Krishna temple in the heart of Salt Lake Valley
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The hole in the ground has been there for a month now, but Caru Das can’t stop admiring it. Who’d have thought? A Krishna temple in the heart of the Salt Lake Valley? Caru and his...
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