For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...

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During Tuesday?s Devotional, President Hinckley dedicated and consecrated the new Joseph F. Smith Building as a place for teaching and learning where God?s work could be fulfilled. Speaking to a ...

On the evening of June 27, 1844, an armed lynch mob descended upon the Carthage, Ill., jail. The mob, their faces disguised with a mixture of mud and gunpowder, was bent on killing Joseph Smith, the ...

Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson, Young Women General President for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, discussed three principles inspired by events from the early life of the prophet Joseph ...

An exhibit honoring the Prophet Joseph Smith opened Thursday in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections of the Harold B. Lee Libary. Elder Perry himself made a surprise visit to the exhibit?s ...

Historians who have spent decades studying the life of Joseph Smith Jr. — born 220 years ago on Dec. 23, 1805 — report that the deeper one is willing to study, the more clarity arises about the kind ...

Carma de Jong Anderson, director of the Costume Institute of Utah, will explain her new exhibit, “The Authentic Clothing of the Joseph Smith Period,” located in Brigham Young University’s Joseph Smith ...

A global church that traces its roots to Mormon prophet Joseph Smith Jr. is poised to select a woman to lead it next weekend. Delegates at Community of Christ's world conference in Independence, Mo., ...

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