Historian Spencer McBride describes how American and Church history timelines show Latter-day Saints should be proactive preservers of their freedom to worship.
Commemorating the country’s 250th birthday, Elder Rasband says that “this promised land is a stepping stone to life eternal ... if we live faithfully” in a new Church News video.
“This promised land is a stepping stone to life eternal, to the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ — if we live faithfully,” said Elder Ronald A. Rasband at a Patriotic Service in Provo, Utah.
President D. Todd Christofferson celebrated religious freedom in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ministered to youth and missionaries in Toronto, Canada.
Led by two Apostles, Latter-day Saints across America participated in combined Sunday School lessons to discuss religious freedom, the Constitution and other foundational documents.
This week on social media, Elder Quentin L. Cook shared that everyone deserves the freedom “to choose the faith that they wanted to follow." Other leaders, including President D. Todd Christofferson and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, shared similar messages about unity.
Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt, General Authority Seventy, was one of more than 120 representatives from several countries who participated in the third Caribbean Symposium on Religious Freedom.
Elder Quentin L. Cook, Elder David L. Buckner, scholars and faith leaders share hopeful perspectives on the strength that unity brings to preserving religious freedom.
Individuals of different faiths, including a Muslim, Sikh and Christian, shared compelling personal experiences underscoring the need to preserve religious freedom.
More than 150 people gathered to celebrate Iowa's Religious Freedom Day with events hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Youth also learned about Legislature and served in a food bank.