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Lawsuit claims retaliation behind firing at Utah university

By JULIAN HATTEM - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 5, 2018 file photo McKenna Denson speaks with reporters during a news conference in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing leaders of brushing aside rape allegations against Denson, a former missionary training center director. Many people who could have testified about what happened in the 1980s have died or have only cloudy memories, leaving the faith unable to fully defend itself, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says in court documents filed Tuesday, May 15, 2018, Denson has said she reported several times over the last three decades that Joseph L. Bishop sexually assaulted her, but the church failed to take disciplinary action. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer,File)

Mormon church wants 1984 rape suit against ex-leader tossed

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 22, 2013, file photo, Andrew Garrison, 11, of Salt Lake City, looks over the Rockwell exhibition at the Mormon Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. Twenty-three original, Boy Scout-themed Norman Rockwell paintings were on display in Salt Lake City to celebrate the 100-year relationship between Scouting and the Mormon church. An announcement Tuesday night, May 8, 2018, by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Boy Scouts will mark an end to close relationship that lasted more than a century built on their shared values. The religion will move its remaining boys into its own scouting-type program. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormons severing all ties with Boy Scouts, ending long bond

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Mormon church kicks out man who supervised young women

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Mormon church plans for temples in Virginia, Russia, India

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About 1,000 Mormons and former Mormons march to the church's headquarters in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 30, 2018, to deliver petitions demanding an end to one-on-one interviews between Mormon youth and lay leaders and the sexual questions that sometimes arise during the meetings. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed policy this week to allow children to bring a parent or adult with them if they choose. The protesters say that doesn't go far enough. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

New Asian-American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, Sam Young, a Mormon father from Houston who is organizing a petition to stop sexually explicit interviews of Mormon youth by their LDS Bishops, talks during a news conference in Salt Lake City. Young said Tuesday, March 27, 2018, that he’s pleased that church leaders are listening but said the changes don’t go far enough. It should be a requirement, not an option, to have a parent or adult with the youth in the interview along with the bishop, he said. (Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

1,000 march in Salt Lake City over Mormon youth interviews

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, Sam Young, a Mormon father from Houston who is organizing a petition to stop sexually explicit interviews of Mormon youth by their LDS Bishops, talks during a news conference in Salt Lake City. Young said Tuesday, March 27, 2018, that he’s pleased that church leaders are listening but said the changes don’t go far enough. It should be a requirement, not an option, to have a parent or adult with the youth in the interview along with the bishop, he said. (Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Mormon church to allow parents in youth bishop meetings

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

This July 26, 2017, photo shows the outside of a new Missionary Training Center building during the media day tour seen through a window of one of the MTC buildings in Provo, Utah. The Mormon church is investigating a former missionary training center president who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the 1980s, following the release this week of a secret audio recording where he is heard apologizing to her and citing a sex addiction. The allegations are &quot;deeply disturbing&quot; and would lead to formal discipline if true, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement posted to its website Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (Sammy Jo Hester/The Daily Herald via AP)

2nd alleged sexual assault victim of ex-Mormon leader

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

President Russell M. Nelson speaks at a church broadcast announcing his new leadership as the faith's president in the wake of the death of President Thomas S. Monson on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon church appoints 93-year-old ex-surgeon as president

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2017, file photo, Dallin H. Oaks, left, and Russell M. Nelson, members of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, talk during the two-day Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City. Nelson has been officially named the faith's president on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The Latest: Mormon president says room in faith for everyone

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President Russell M. Nelson, center, as his counselors Dallin H. Oaks, left and Henry B. Eyring, speak during a news conference announcing his new leadership in the wake of the death of President Thomas S. Monson Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon leadership hierarchy is made up only of men

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Mourners leave the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City after paying their last respects to Thomas S. Monson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, during a public viewing, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Monson spent more than five decades serving in top church leadership councils, making him a well-known face and personality to multiple generations of Mormons. He died on Jan. 2 at the age of 90. (Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Mormon president remembered for devotion to poor, needy

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 4, 2015, file photo, President Thomas S. Monson, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, waves to the audience during the opening session of the Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City. Monson, the 16th president of the Mormon church, died after nine years in office. He was 90. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Correction: Obit-Thomas Monson-A Life story

By BRADY MCCOMBS - Associated Press

This April 1, 2017, file photo shows Thomas M. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the two-day Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City. Monson, the 16th president of the Mormon church, has died after nine years in office. He was 90. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Thomas S. Monson, president of Mormon church, dies at 90

By Brady McCombs - Associated Press

In this Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, photo, show Helen Radkey at her home in Holladay, Utah. Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member's ancestors, according to a researcher Helen Radkey who has spent two decades monitoring the church's massive genealogical database (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

APNewsBreak: Mormon baptisms of Holocaust victims draw ire

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2013, file photo, Mormon missionaries walk through the halls at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. The Mormon church's gradual embrace of the digital age for missionaries is taking another step forward as the religion doubles the missions where technology is allowed and swaps out tablets for smartphones. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormons allow more technology, smartphones for missionaries

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

In this July 10, 2015, photo, Mormon leader Robert D. Hales attends the memorial service for Mormon leader Boyd K. Packer at the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Hales has died at the age of 85. Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a statement that Hales died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, in a Salt Lake City hospital surrounded by his wife and family. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon leader Hales memorialized as wise and devoted

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - This July 10, 2015, file photo, shows Senior Mormon leader Robert D. Hales, right, and Richard G. Scott, left, attending the memorial service for Mormon leader Boyd K. Packer at the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Senior Mormon leader Robert D. Hales has died at the age of 85. Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a statement that Hales died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, in a Salt Lake City hospital surrounded by his wife and family. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormon leader Robert D. Hales dies; served on top panel

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - This April 1, 2017 file photo shows Thomas M. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the two-day Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City. Monson won't attend this weekend's church conference in Salt Lake City due to his ailing health--church authorities confirmed Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, that the 90-year-old Monson will miss the twice-yearly conference and referred to church's May, 2017, statement that Monson is no longer coming to meetings at church offices regularly because of limitations related to his age.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The Latest: Mormon leader denounces racism at conference

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