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BYU-Idaho serves record number of students in 2009
A record 22,997 students attended Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2009, continuing the university's steady increase in enrollment since becoming a four-year institution in 2001. A major reason for the university's enrollment growth is the three-track system, which offers three distinct 14-week...
Relief Society message: 'Strengthening faith through scripture study'
Starting this month, the Church News will publish a monthly message to complement the Relief Society's visiting teaching message found in the Ensign magazine. The following account is based on this month's theme, "Strengthening faith in God the Father and Jesus Christ through personal scripture...
Church in Asia responds to tsunami threat
As a tsunami bore down on Asia Sunday, Feb. 28, Priesthood leaders took action to protect missionaries and members. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center removed warnings for all areas except Japan and Russia by Sunday morning Asia time. Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Seventy, and president of the...
Elder Holland on the earthquake and life in Chile
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Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve was on a Church assignment in the African nation of Ghana when he received word of the history-making earthquake that sent a portion of Chile...
Mormon Missionary in Chile Shares His Experience of Helping and Serving Near the Epicenter of the Quake
This week Church Public Affairs conducted a phone interview with Elder Mark Roberts of Phoenix, Arizona, a young Mormon missionary serving in Chile in the city of Talca. He was near the epicenter of the devastating quake last week and shared over the phone some of the experiences he and his fellow...
Earthquake in Chile: Faith prevails over fear
Ana Torres Henriquez is a reluctant earthquake veteran. As a Chilean, she's learned first-hand that her country is a seismically-active land. Geologically, the Latin term "Terra Firma" does not apply to Chile. In 1985, Sister Torres Henriquez survived a deadly quake at its epicenter in the coastal...
Messages from Chile tell of experiences during 8.8 earthquake
Even as Church members in Chile take their maiden steps of recovery following a massive earthquake on Saturday, Feb. 27, many are recalling the horror of experiencing one of the strongest recorded temblors in history. The following accounts were collected by Church News contributor Laurie Williams...
Church Responding to Chile Earthquake
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chile are actively assisting in relief efforts and determining how the Church can be of most assistance in the wake of one of the most powerful earthquakes of the last century. With over half a million Latter-day Saints living in the...
Sierra Leone water project: Tribal communities work together to improve health
As we emerged from the canoe on the banks of the Sewa River, singing in the distance told us that this was going to be an extraordinary day. We were in the bush an hour east of Bo, in central Sierra Leone. Hiking up a trail to the small forest village of Lowama, we saw a procession of about 50...
Tsunami threat leads to precautions for LDS missionaries, members in Asia
As a tsunami bore down on Asia Sunday, Priesthood leaders took action to protect missionaries and members. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center removed warnings for all areas except Japan and Russia by Sunday morning Asia time. Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Seventy, and president of the Asia...
Scouting reaches its centennial anniversary
As the Boy Scouts of America celebrates its 100th anniversary, the storied organization's first institutional sponsor — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — can certainly claim a prominent place at the birthday table. It was a century ago this month that the BSA was organized on a...
Status of Church operations after 8.8 quake in Chile
All Latter-day Saint missionaries serving in the Church’s nine missions in Chile are safe and accounted for after a massive 8.8 earthquake rocked the nation early Saturday, killing more than 140 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin, according to Church public...
Cardinal George Addresses Religious Freedom in Speech at BYU
Catholics and Latter-day Saints are important partners in the defense of religious freedom in the public square. That was the message His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. delivered today at Brigham Young University to thousands of students, faculty and others tuning in by satellite and on...
Church responds with aid to flooding in Northern Albania
The Church responded quickly after flooding in forced thousands of people to evacuate from their villages and farms to the city of Shkodër in northern Albania. Local missionaries and members worked together to lend a hand. Elder Peter B. Snow, serving on a humanitarian mission with his wife,...
