No general conference has started and ended without a church president in the past 137 years, but the spiritual messages from leaders and music from the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square promised to ...

Nelson, a former heart surgeon, spent four decades in the highest levels of church leadership and ascended to the presidency ...

The oldest serving president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell M. Nelson, died on Saturday night in his Salt Lake City home at age 101, church officials announced. In a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nashville issued a statement Sunday after the death of the oldest president in the history of the church.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spent the past few weeks in a moment of both mourning and transition. On Sept. 28, 2025, a shooting and arson at a Latter-day Saints meetinghouse in ...

Russell M. Nelson, a heart surgeon and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at his Salt Lake City home on Saturday.

(The Conversation) — The church, whose members are often known as Mormons, has grown from a small community to 17.5 million members around the world – but not without some tensions. Oaks will inherit ...