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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 Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (abbreviated to FLDS Church or FLDS) is a Mormon fundamentalist group [2] [3] whose members practice polygamy. [4] It is variously defined as a cult , a sect or a new religious movement .
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has been subject to criticism since its inception. In the late 1820s, criticism centered around Joseph Smith stating he had been led to a set of golden plates from which he said the Book of Mormon was translated.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gained worldwide attention years ago when authorities raided a Texas compound and eventually arrested church leader Warren Jeffs.
Some reports linked the Free Land Holders group to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs, a self-proclaimed prophet who is ...
The formal shift in doctrine by the LDS Church later in the early-20th century gave rise to the Mormon fundamentalism movement, which has since fragmented into a number of separate churches, the most well-known being the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church). The FLDS Church and other Mormon fundamentalists ...
“The TV show does not accurately represent Latter-day Saints (LDS) faith or practices or wives,” one post reads, seeking to put distance between the term “Mormon” and the name of the Church.
Jeffrey Lundgren was born on May 3, 1950, in Independence, Missouri, and grew up as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). ). According to Lundgren, as well as some of his former neighbors, he was severely abused as a child, particularly by his fat