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Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa

Two decades ago Sampson Boamah did something unusual for a Ghanaian high school student: he became a Mormon. Back then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the American Christian sect is formally known, was on the fringes in Africa. Many viewed it as “the white people’s church”. On his first mission in…

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Gunman in Michigan church shooting died after "exchanging gunfire" with police. Here's what we know.

Gunman in Michigan church shooting died after “exchanging gunfire” with police. Here’s what we know.

Police in Grand Blanc, Michigan, say the gunman who killed at least two people and injured eight others at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday morning died after “exchanging gunfire” with police. The suspect was identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, Michigan, Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said.  Sanford…

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