The 2022 announcement that a locket contained a daguerreotype, purportedly the only known photograph of Mormonism founder ...

Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the first known U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated. Smith was not on the national ballot, nor was he endorsed ...

In his new book, “Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History,” historian Richard Bushman calls the Book of Mormon, the signature scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a ...

SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church took another step toward transparency recently with the first published pictures of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate a ...

Today’s dedication of the restored Joseph Smith home in Kirtland by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrates this year’s 20th anniversary of Historic Kirtland, the restored village ...

SHARON, Vt. (AP) -- Faithful Mormons on Friday celebrated the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the ...

LDS Bible scholar Dan McClellan explores what the church's recent approval of modern Bible translations — besides the King ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Critics will find no bombshells in the new 640-page book of early historic documents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but scholars and the faithful will ...

Flight -- Part 1. "In Illinois we've found a safe retreat-- ". King Joseph ; Zion, Illinois ; Everybody hates the Mormons ; Polygamy and its discontents -- Part 2. "Oh! Illinois! thy soil has drank ...

Church founder Joseph Smith Jr. called himself prophet and White House hopeful. Dec. 6, 2007 — -- Mitt Romney is the most recent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to seek ...