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Sarah Jane Weaver

Sarah Jane Weaver is the assistant editor of the LDS Church News, where since 1995 she has covered, among other things, LDS Welfare Services and Church Education. Her favorite assignments include reporting on LDS Church temple dedications and writing about Latter-day Saints around the world. Sarah graduated from BYU in with a degree in journalism and history and served as editor and chief of the BYU student newspaper, the Daily Universe. Before joining the Deseret News staff, she worked for the Ogden Standard Examiner in Ogden, Utah, and completed a Pulliam Fellowship at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Ariz.

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Recent Articles by Sarah Jane Weaver

LDS Church opens bishops' storehouse to help 'poor and needy'

Published: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:00 am MST

A new 570,391-square-foot welfare facility built by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will help the organization respond to disasters and take care of those in need.

Quorums, relief societies bolstered in BYU devotional

Published: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:00 am MST

Quorums and relief societies in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are meant to be a safety and a refuge in these difficult days and to support and strengthen the identity, roles and responsibiliti...

President Thomas S. Monson says put Christ at center of Christmas

Published: Monday, December 5, 2011 12:00 am MST

Despite many distractions, Christ can be the center of Christmas celebrations, said LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson on Sunday evening.

Strengthening women: 'Daughters in my Kingdom' is to help women in their responsibilities

Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:00 am MDT

In 1870 — a time of general misunderstanding about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their beliefs — a group of LDS women in Utah called a press conference and addressed...

Mormon women urged to focus on 'why' of gospel

Published: Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:00 am MDT

The forget-me-not flower can be a symbol of little things that sweeten the lives of women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said President Dieter F. Uchtdorf during church's General Relief Soc...

Mormon women urged to focus on 'why' of gospel

Published: Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:00 am MDT

Utah Scout honors ancestor by donating soccer balls to school in Japan

Published: Friday, July 1, 2011 4:00 am MDT

It is easy to forget about the tragedy that surrounds the Yamashita Middle School here while watching a soccer game in this community in northern Japan.

Mormon missionaries return to Sendai to help Japanese rebuild

Published: Friday, June 17, 2011 9:30 am MDT

The first day back in Sendai, the missionaries attended a mission conference. The next day they did what they had wanted to do since the earthquake and tsunami; they returned to the disaster zone and started cl...

Bishop Burton presents Mormon church aid to Japanese fishermen

Published: Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:00 am MDT

WATARI, Japan — Prominent signs placed amid the miles and miles of devastation and destruction in the Japan's Miyagi prefecture send a one-word message of the resiliency of the people here: "Ganbaru," whi...

Bishop Burton presents Mormon church aid to Japanese fishermen

Published: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:30 pm MDT

In an official ceremony, LDS Church Presiding Bishop H. David Burton presented members of the Miyagi Prefecture Fishing Cooperative with a certificate pledging help from the church's humanitarian fund.