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Sonia Kruger, a reporter for the Australian news show Today Tonight, went on assignment to report about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wanting to learn more about the Church, Kruger went directly to the experts — the Mormons. Kruger captured her experiences in a video segment in which Church members and missionaries were given the opportunity to explain their beliefs and dispel misconceptions people may have about Mormons. FullStory
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Great controversies have occured in the past over the special honor due to the icons of Christ as well as those of the saints of the Church. The Iconclastic controversies which began in Byzantium in the seventh century shook the entire church. The Fathers of the Church... declared quite clearly that the honor belongs to the "prototype" and not to the material image of Christ or the Saints. The Acts of the Fourth session of the Seventh Ecumenical Council at Nicaea (787 A.D.) illuminate this particular point:
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CBS became the third national TV network in the past few weeks to broadcast stories profiling The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its practices and beliefs. CBS spoke to a Church-member family from Maryland, attended a family home evening, and talked about Church history and how many Church members now serve in the United States Congress. The broadcast can be seen on the CBS News website. FullStory
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Since the early Christian period there have been preserved many moving descriptions of the lives and martyrdoms and the miracles of the saints. They were (and still are) called synaxaria (from the Greek word Synaxis, meaning a meeting in the church for liturgical purposes, where the lives of the Saints were read). St. Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain composed synaxaria of the saints during the eighteenth century; and, most recently, Fr. George Poulos and Dr. Constantine Cavarnos have written lives of the saints in English.
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Jeffs, 51, is president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect of almost 10,000 who practice polygamy in arranged marriages. He was arrested during traffic stop northeast of Las Vegas last August on a federal warrant of flight to avoid prosecution in Utah and Arizona.
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