Religious Freedom Website from LDS Church
"Religious freedom is more than just the freedom to believe what you want. It’s also the freedom to talk about and act on your core beliefs without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety. It also allows people with...
World Suicide Prevention Day September 10
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. The month of September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In my article earlier this week about National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I listed these statistics: Over 800,000 people die by suicide...
LDS Church Publishes Suicide Prevention Website
To coincide with the National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in September and the World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, the LDS Church has published a Preventing Suicide web page. PreventingSuicide.lds.org provides essential information for those who are...
Email Addresses for LDS Leaders
To improve communications, the Church is consolidating the number of email addresses used by Church systems that communicate with members and leaders. The goal is to have only one email address for each individual. Headquarters systems that send communications to...
National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Over 800,000 people die by suicide worldwide every year.1 That's 1 person every 40 seconds.2 And for every completed suicide, there are 25 suicide attempts.3 In the United States, suicide rates have surged to...
LDS Magazine Articles About Suicide Prevention
The LDS Church has published the following age-appropriate articles about suicide in the September issues of the Church magazines: September Ensign & Liahona: “Choosing to Live” and “How to Create a Suicide-Prevention Safety Plan.” The article is written for...
Gospel Topic: Suicide
The LDS Church has just updated the entry on "Suicide" in the Gospel Topics on LDS.org. The timing coincides with the national suicide prevention awareness month in September. The Gospel Topic states, "Most people who have thought about suicide do not want to die;...
Live Broadcast: Teaching in the Savior’s Way
The Church has announced a live broadcast on Saturday, November 5, 2016, to provide training on Teaching in the Savior’s Way. The training will focus on teacher council meetings and new teacher orientation. Interactive instruction will be provided by General...
Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults, Sep 11, With Elder Cook
Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will be the speaker at a worldwide devotional for young adults on Sunday, September 11, 2016, at 6:00 p.m. MDT. All young adults (ages 18–30) and students finishing high school or the equivalent are invited to...
Scripture Fling Mobile App
The free mobile app Scripture Fling tests your knowledge of 100 Scripture Mastery verses by requiring you to quickly connect verses with their references. With a new practice mode, the timer goes up instead of down so you can see how long it takes to get through the...
Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision
Latter-day Saints are very familiar with Joseph Smith's account of the First Vision as published in Joseph Smith—History in the Pearl of Great Price. But fewer members have studies the other accounts of the First Vision, which can give us a greater understanding of...
LDS Billionaire Jr. Especially For Youth Mobile App
The mobile app LDS Billionaire Jr. – Especially For Youth is a slightly modified version of the LDS Billionaire app to relate to youth and children. Like the original app, this version is full of interesting LDS trivia. The game is played like the well-loved game...
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