LDS News Watch

Here’s an article from the Washington Post on the LDS Church in Nigeria. The article was accompanied by this short video:

Nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author Michael Medved wrote up an opinion piece yesterday on USAToday’s website titled “Hollywood’s terrorists: Mormon, not Muslim”. Medved took to task those involved with the upcoming film September Dawn, a portrayal (albeit jaded and misrepresented one) of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Claiming they don’t have an axe to [...]

The Age, a newspaper based in Victoria, Australia, failed to do its homework in a recent article about the HBO series Big Love. The article’s author, Peter Mattessi, describes the polygamist family depicted in the series as devout Mormons, despite the disclaimers that appeared before many episodes that the Mormon Church banned polygamy in 1890. [...]

Kudos to U.S. News and World Report for acknowledging that the cover of a recent issue may have implied a connection between the LDS Church and polygamist/fundamentalist groups. Apparently the story itself was clear about the distinction, but the cover may have been unintentionally misleading:
While the article makes a distinction between that polygamous sect and [...]

This just in, from Mary Richards of KSL:
It’s not a belief that’s endorsed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and yet some people believe that if Mitt Romney is elected president, he’s destined to do a great thing.
There’s growing talk Mitt Romney could be the one to fulfill a so-called prophecy and [...]

A recent article in the Editor & Publisher appears to have made a glaring misrepresentation about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the error was subsequently remedied. The Editor & Publisher is a monthly journal covering the newspaper business. It featured an article dated May 25 that carried the title “Deseret Reporter [...]

A recent article in TIME Magazine by Nancy Gibbs (entitled “The Religion Test” in the print magazine and “Romney’s Mormon Question” on the Web site) examines whether a political candidate’s religious beliefs are appropriate criteria to consider in a political contest. While the article focuses mostly on Mitt Romney’s bid for the presidency, it discusses [...]

The Times Online has a story on child abuse by two British ladies that is circulating through Europe. The headline reads “Mormon women ‘tortured children to instil discipline’”, but we’re left wondering why the professed religion of these two women is even mentioned. The only connections to the Church, weak at best, are that the [...]

Today the LDS Church issued a press release on membership numbers and trends: Mormon church growth statistics.
There are currently 13 million Mormons, with another million added about every three years. While the National Council of Churches lists the Mormon church as the fourth fastest growing church in the U.S., the Church itself does not [...]

An op-ed piece in the New York Times today discussed Mitt Romney’s religion in the context of his bid for presidential nomination. While the article focused mainly on political strategy, it did highlight some of the differences between Mormonism and the rest of Christianity. The article, by op-ed contributor Kenneth Woodward, was respectful and accurate. [...]