http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26227/poll-three-in-four-pastors-say-mormons-are-not-christians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26227/poll-three-in-four-pastors-say-mormons-are-not-christians#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:58:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26227 Most pastors feel strongly that Mormons are not Christians, according to a survey by LifeWay Research.

Three out of four pastors surveyed by Southern Baptist-affiliated LifeWay Research said they disagreed with the statement that Mormons are Christians.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26227/poll-three-in-four-pastors-say-mormons-are-not-christians/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25602/polygamists-believe-theyre-following-tenet-of-the-faith-b-c-court-hears http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25602/polygamists-believe-theyre-following-tenet-of-the-faith-b-c-court-hears#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:10:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25602 fundamentalist Mormon sect in the small British Columbia commune of Bountiful believe they are adhering to the original word of the religion's prophet, says a former plural wife and advocate of polygamy]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25602/polygamists-believe-theyre-following-tenet-of-the-faith-b-c-court-hears/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25573/latter-day-saints-make-2-1m-land-purchase-at-site-of-sacred-importance http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25573/latter-day-saints-make-2-1m-land-purchase-at-site-of-sacred-importance#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:03:08 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25573 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormon Church, this week paid $2.1 million for 10 acres of land in Oakland Twp., Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25573/latter-day-saints-make-2-1m-land-purchase-at-site-of-sacred-importance/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25265/mormonism-a-campaign-issue-in-nevada-idaho http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25265/mormonism-a-campaign-issue-in-nevada-idaho#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:25:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25265 Mormonism and politics have merged in two Western campaigns this month, providing a glimpse of the renewed scrutiny Mitt Romney could face in a 2012 presidential run.

In the Nevada Senate race, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faced allegations from his Republican opponent’s pastor that he is a member of a cult. Reid is a Mormon convert.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25265/mormonism-a-campaign-issue-in-nevada-idaho/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25044/suspect-in-mormon-church-attack-was-former-member http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25044/suspect-in-mormon-church-attack-was-former-member#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:44:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25044 fatal shooting of a Mormon church official in Central California was mentally ill and believed the church had wronged him when he was a member in the 1980s, family members said Monday.

Kenneth James Ward, 47, would go through delusional spells when he blamed the Mormon church for his troubles, according to his younger brother, Mike Ward.

"When my brother had one of his episodes, he conjured up in his mind that he thought that the Mormons were sending him to hell. He would tell me that," Mike Ward, 44, said in a phone interview from his home in Bakersfield.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25044/suspect-in-mormon-church-attack-was-former-member/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24455/prop-8-mormonism-and-the-other-fight-for-alternative-marriage http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24455/prop-8-mormonism-and-the-other-fight-for-alternative-marriage#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:05:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24455 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24455/prop-8-mormonism-and-the-other-fight-for-alternative-marriage/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23610/bob-bennett-forgery-charges-against-book-of-mormon http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23610/bob-bennett-forgery-charges-against-book-of-mormon#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:17:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23610 Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, has spent time on and off for the last seven years building a defense of the Book of Mormon, one of the key tomes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Religion News Service reports.

The three-term senator -- A former missionary and bishop and the grandson of a past president of the church -- has now delved into a different debate: whether the book Mormons believe was revealed by an angel to their founder Joseph Smith in the 1820s is authentic.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23610/bob-bennett-forgery-charges-against-book-of-mormon/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23491/lds-church-rebaptizes-polygamists http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23491/lds-church-rebaptizes-polygamists#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:24:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23491 Prominent fundamentalist Mormons, most of whom were excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for practicing polygamy while they were alive, have been posthumously re-baptized in LDS temples, a Salt Lake City researcher says.

"The LDS Church appears to be reinventing its polygamous history, as it ushers excommunicated Mormon fundamentalists back into the LDS fold through a postmortem back door," Helen Radkey wrote in her report.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23491/lds-church-rebaptizes-polygamists/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23399/mormon-apostates http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23399/mormon-apostates#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:49:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23399 Thousands of issues of Brigham Young University's student newspaper were pulled from newsstands because a front-page photo caption misidentified leaders of the Mormon church as apostates instead of apostles.

An apostate is someone who abandons a previous loyalty - such as to faith, political party or a cause.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23399/mormon-apostates/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23395/mormon-jesus http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23395/mormon-jesus#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:02:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23395 While protesters outside the LDS Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City condemned Mormonism as non-Christian, nearly every speaker inside the giant building Sunday morning emphasized the conviction that Jesus Christ is at the center of Mormon faith, theologically, personally and intimately.

More than 20,000 members listened in the Conference Center during a morning and afternoon session, while millions more watched the proceedings via satellite in LDS chapels across the world.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23395/mormon-jesus/feed 0