On Sunday at the Mormon stake near Alma School Road and University Drive in Mesa, five Hispanic boys dressed like missionaries in white shirts and ties fan out through the pews, bearing silver trays of bread chunks and water cups.

February 26, 2005

It’s been almost 27 years since the Mormon Church lifted its ban that had kept black males from the church’s priesthood.

Stan Way, a Latter-day Saint from Jasper, Ala., had just finished dinner out with some Mormon missionaries when he noticed a car slowing as it approached.

The Gilbert Stapley Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is holding solo auditions and asking for instrumentalists for the upcoming Handel's Messiah community singalong with an orchestra.

What follows is a sentence that could have been written anytime during the past 40 years:

I challenge anyone to find a listing for the Mormon church in any phone book in America.

SALT LAKE CITY - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is launching a new radio network that will broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

FARMINGTON, Utah -- The Mormon church - which begins a new construction project every week - is looking to lessen its imprint on the environment.

Investigators are trying to determine whether arson was the cause of a fire that destroyed a Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in Mesa on Thursday.

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormons should cling to their faith and church teachings in order to weather the problems and temptations they face daily in a tumultuous world, the church's president said at the close of a two-day church conference Sunday.

SALT LAKE CITY - There is no hint of a Mormon presence in the high-rise where the Beijing LDS branches meet.

An early morning fire Monday destroyed the Mesa Arizona Lehi Stake building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1430 N. Grand St.

For 30 years, I have been a leader in my church and community of Mesa. I announce to the world in this column that I am a gay Mormon. Putting those two words together in print is the hardest thing I’ve had to face.

The commentary of Robert Parker ("LDS church on wrong side of gay marriage," June 29) has several false statements and innuendos needing correction. Parker's views definitely are not representative of active members in good standing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

September 21, 2004

Gov. Janet Napolitano has clashed often with powerful Mormon lawmakers during her first two years in office, but admits she doesn’t know much about the faith that motivates them.

The sting from hearing it was an arson-caused fire that reduced their church to rubble last November is still there. But when about 1,500 members of three wards attend Easter services Sunday at three scattered sites, their stake president says they’ll look beyond that loss without bitterness.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has unveiled a new church history library.