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The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (abbreviated to FLDS and not to be confused with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is a religious sect of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations [ 3][ 4] whose members practice polygamy. [ 5] It is variously defined as a cult, a sect, or a new religious movement.
YFZ Ranch. Coordinates: 30.9215°N 100.5348°W. The FLDS temple in the YFZ Ranch. The Yearning for Zion Ranch, or the YFZ Ranch, [ 1] was a 1,700-acre (690-hectare) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community of as many as 700 people, located near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States.
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [ 8]
The Short Creek raid was an Arizona Department of Public Safety and Arizona National Guard action against Mormon fundamentalists that took place on the morning of July 26, 1953, at Short Creek, Arizona. The Short Creek raid was the "largest mass arrest of polygamists in American history". [ 1] Law enforcement arrested polygamist men and removed ...
Short Creek Community. / 36.98944°N 112.97806°W / 36.98944; -112.97806. The Short Creek Community (now Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah ), founded in 1913, began as a small ranching town in the Arizona Strip. [ 1] In the 1930s it was settled by Mormon fundamentalists .
138 [ 2 ] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Texas. Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 1.13% in 2007 and 1.21% in 2014. According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey in both years ...
Colorado City is located in northeastern Mohave County at 36°59′25″N 112°58′33″W (36.99026, −112.97577) Its northern border is the Arizona – Utah state line, with the town of Hildale, Utah, to the north. Arizona State Route 389 passes through the center of town, leading east 31 miles (50 km) to Fredonia.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates 449 missions [ 1] throughout the world, as of June 2024. Most are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city. The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are ...