Russell M. Nelson

Latest Stories

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2018, file photo, president Russell M. Nelson looks on following a news conference, in Salt Lake City. The president of the Mormon church is asking people to refrain from using &quot;Mormon&quot; or &quot;LDS&quot; as a substitute for the full name of the religion: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Church president: Use ‘Latter-day Saints’ not ‘Mormon’

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2018, file photo, about 1,000 Mormons and former Mormons march to the church's headquarters in Salt Lake City, 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 Mormon church is for the first time posting the list of questions lay leaders are supposed to ask youth during closed door, one-on-one interviews that have come under scrutiny for sexual questions that sometimes arise. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormons post questions asked during youth interviews

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Ulisses Soares, left, of Brazil and Gerrit W. Gong, who is Chinese-American, join a panel called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at the start of a twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, March 31, 2018, in Salt Lake City. At the church conference this weekend in Salt Lake City, The Mormon church has made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel by selecting the first-ever Latin American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon church’s all-male hierarchy is steeped in tradition

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

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

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

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 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

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2017, file photo, Russell M. Nelson, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints looks on before the start of the two-day Mormon church conference, in Salt Lake City. President Thomas S. Monson, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the 16th president of the Mormon church, died Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, after nine years in office. He was 90. The next president was not immediately named, but the job is expected to go to next longest-tenured member of the church's governing Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Nelson, per church protocol. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Former heart surgeon set to become next Mormon president

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

FILE - In this April 5, 2014 file photo, people walk past the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City. On Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, Mormon leaders made a national appeal for what they called a &quot;balanced approach&quot; in the clash between gay rights and religious freedom, promising to support some housing and job protections for gays if they back some exemptions for religious objectors to same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon church appoints new leader to top post

Associated Press