Students at the historic Black college object to the portrait of Mormonism's founder Joseph Smith in their chapel, citing the church's history of racist policies ...

On February 4, 1846, members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their journey west from Nauvoo, ...

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 ...

A portrait of church founder Joseph Smith Jr. has been added to Morehouse College’s International Hall of Honor in Atlanta — to join paintings of Abraham Lincoln and Russell M. Nelson.

At 94, Latter-day Saint historian Richard Bushman speaks about the church presidents he has known, the challenges the faith has faced, the changes he has witnessed, the histories he has written, and ...

In an essay posted without fanfare to its website in late October, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said for the first time that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, had as many ...

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized Wednesday night for inaccurate comments he made a week earlier about the origins of the Mormon church. “I am truly sorry if I said something inaccurate about ...

Nov 11 (Reuters) - The Mormon church has said that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having publicly portrayed ...