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FILE - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson speaks during a news conference at the Temple Square South Visitors Center in Salt Lake City, on April 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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The top leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is celebrating a milestone birthday, his 100th.
 
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints greets his family prior to a photo during his 100th birthday celebration at the Little Theatre of the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Jeffrey D. Allred/The Deseret News via AP, Pool)

The Mormon church’s oldest-ever president has turned 100

 
President Russell M. Nelson gestures during The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints conference Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Latter-day Saints leader addresses congregants without a word on racial or LGBTQ+ issues

 
FILE - Elder Patrick Kearon speaks at the First Presidency Christmas Devotional at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. On Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, Kearon, the newest member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' top governing body, said every faith — including his — must do more to protect victims of sexual abuse and help facilitate a healing process. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP, File)

New member of Mormon church leadership says it must do better to help sex abuse victims heal

 
FILE - Elder Patrick Kearon speaks at the First Presidency Christmas Devotional at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, Kearon, the newest member of the faith's top governing body to fill a vacancy when a member died last month will be a man raised in England who had been previously serving on a middle tier leadership council. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)

Mormon church selects British man who converted to the faith as an adult for top governing body

 

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The casket is carried during the funeral for President M. Russell Ballard of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. Associates and children of a top leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remembered him at the funeral as a principled and compassionate man and exemplar of the faith. Ballard, who died Sunday at age 95, was second-in-line to the church presidency as the second-longest-tenured member of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (Jeffrey D. Allred/The Deseret News via AP)

High-ranking Mormon church leader Russell Ballard remembered as examplar of the faith

 
FILE - M. Russell Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaks during the World Congress of Families event, Oct. 27, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Ballard, one of the highest ranking leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, surrounded by family at his home, according to a church statement Monday morning, Nov. 13. He was 95. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

High-ranking Mormon leader M. Russell Ballard dies at age 95. He was second-in-line to lead faith

 
In this Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017 photo, Norma Richter, left, and Lori Barlow hug after an eviction notice was served on their Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints church meeting house in their community on the Utah-Arizona border. Authorities later canceled the eviction after working out a deal with church leaders. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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