Peace "is made, often by ordinary people willing to reach across a divide," said Elder Alexander Dushku, General Authority Seventy, at the Iowa Religious Freedom Day symposium.

BYU's law school is launching a Religious Liberty Clinic to give students hands-on experience drafting appellate briefs in religious freedom cases.

The gathering discussed BYU research showing religious people have greater happiness and stability, better health and other positive traits.

“Unity does not demand uniformity,” Elder Ulisses Soares said at the Forum on Faith in New York City, inviting people of different faiths to protect religious freedom and serve together.

This most recent edition features President Dallin H. Oaks’ address in the Washington National Cathedral, the latest updates to the Salt Lake Temple renovation and the Church’s efforts to care for those in need.

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shared the spotlight with others in the community working to help those in need.

The Church’s South America South Area presidency met with the Vatican’s top interfaith official and others at a religious freedom event in Argentina.

After a stake president of the Church died, a Sikh leader in the United Arab Emirates has honored their friendship with an annual service project.

Legal, religious and civic leaders gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss the vital relationship between laws and religious freedom.

As Fiji reviews its constitution, Elder Taniela B. Wakolo called on leaders to safeguard religious freedom.

Elder Juan Pablo Villar was one of the featured speakers at Peru's first international symposium for religious freedom.

Historian Spencer McBride describes how American and Church history timelines show Latter-day Saints should be proactive preservers of their freedom to worship.

"We see the way that God works in the big moments. We see the way that He works in the subtle changes of our lives. He’s there."

Commemorating the country’s 250th birthday, Elder Rasband says that “this promised land is a stepping stone to life eternal ... if we live faithfully” in a new Church News video.

Historians and professors say the First Presidency's invitation is a fitting part of America 250 commemorations.

“This promised land is a stepping stone to life eternal, to the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ — if we live faithfully,” said Elder Ronald A. Rasband at a Patriotic Service in Provo, Utah.

President D. Todd Christofferson celebrated religious freedom in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ministered to youth and missionaries in Toronto, Canada.

Led by two Apostles, Latter-day Saints across America participated in combined Sunday School lessons to discuss religious freedom, the Constitution and other foundational documents.

This week on social media, Elder Quentin L. Cook shared that everyone deserves the freedom “to choose the faith that they wanted to follow." Other leaders, including President D. Todd Christofferson and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, shared similar messages about unity.

Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt, General Authority Seventy, was one of more than 120 representatives from several countries who participated in the third Caribbean Symposium on Religious Freedom.