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Number of Latter-day Saints increased in 49 of 50 states.

A new website offers historical resources for those interested in visiting or learning about the Church's Missouri historic sites.

Numbers of members, units, missionaries and temples for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints listed for the past three years.

The response to the devastation of the Teton Dam flood “is true Church history of how Saints showed up and lived their religion.”

Church History Department employees discuss the "ultimate goal" of preserving historic sites — to connect people, places and events to the Savior.

The first two single sister missionaries reached England in 1898; today there is a wave of sister missionaries going at age 18.

One of the surviving Nauvoo Temple sunstones — a treasured historic artifact — is now on display in the new Nauvoo Temple Visitors' Center.

In a new Church News video, Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaks about the significance of Nauvoo and June 27 in Church history.

Church leaders have encouraged members to study about moral agency and how the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence support religious liberty.

After the Nauvoo Temple Visitors’ Center, Elder Gerrit W. Gong and other Church leaders responded to questions from news media about visiting historic sites, Joseph Smith and the need to “touch grass” in sacred places.