Between 2011 and 2021 the number of members in Africa increased by 120%, compared with 19% globally. Matt Martinich, a ...

Federal fugitive Warren Steed Jeffs, linked by newspaper reports to a group living in a fenced-off enclave near Pringle, has ruled his polygamist Mormon sect with an iron hand, expelling rival leaders ...

(Reuters) - WhatsApp messages flooded Amber Bostwick’s phone last Tuesday as relatives sent harrowing accounts of the slaughter of nine women and children by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico. The ...

Samuel R. Bateman, 48, of Colorado City, Ariz., who claimed to have more than 20 “wives” including 10 “brides” under 18, pleaded guilty in April to two felony conspiracy charges. By Michael Levenson ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - Ex-bishop Fredrick Merril Jessop was found guilty on Monday of marrying a 12-year-old girl to polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life term for sexually ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office ...

Aug. 5, 2004 -- It was not an unfamiliar experience for Flora Jessop, racing north from Phoenix in response to a desperate phone call. Two teenagers said they feared being forced into a marriage with ...

Bishop Lyle Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was living out of his car for two weeks before his arrest in Yankton, South Dakota, an FBI official said ...

Jeffs, 55, the self-proclaimed 'prophet' and head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who acted as his own attorney, faces up to life in prison. The jury was last night ...

As a Mormon teenager in the 1970s, I was constantly admonished by church elders to keep my body strong and pure — free of alcohol, drugs and nicotine, and even of the caffeine in Coca-Cola. My ...