Are Mormons being singled out for religious persecution, as some members claim? These people are deeply attuned to (and hurt by) unflattering portrayals of our religion on the small screen, and ...

From Salt Lake City, where the Mormons arrived after a 1,300-mile exodus from Illinois in 1846, Church of Latter-day Saints President Gordon B. Hinckley noted the context in which the church has ...

"The persecution of the Mormons was officially sanctioned by at least two different state governments," says Dallin Oaks, elder of the Mormon Church. Adds Truman Madsen, author and historian.

The Mormons begins with the turbulent early history of the Mormon faith, ... "The persecution of the Mormons was officially sanctioned by at least two different state governments," says Dallin ...

If Mormons are being persecuted on television, then they’re in good company. Religion in general is being carefully scrutinized, especially its more conservative expressions.

Religious persecution "Mormons as a group has deeply ingrained within their psyche that they are a religious minority that has experienced persecution in the not-distant past," said David Campbell ...

To escape persecution, the group began moving west -- and kept going. In 1847, a small group led by Brigham Young reached the valley of the Great Salt Lake, and over the next 20 years about 80,000 ...

And a persecution complex helps no one. ... Mormons today would evidently fare better than, say, an atheist or Muslim candidate, but the remarkably persistent numbers since 1967 are telling.

The persecution and “othering” that Mormons suffered during their recent first century probably sensitizes them more than, say, white Alabama Baptists, to the persecution of minorities.

One hundred fifty years ago, a glorious September morning in the Utah mountains morphed into Mormonism's darkest hour when a skittish militia opened fire on a wagon train, leaving more than 120 ...

It is seen as one of the darkest chapters in American history – an act of domestic terrorism second only to the Oklahoma City bombing nearly 140 years later. As new Netflix drama ‘American ...