Illustration of the angel Moroni and prophet Joseph Smith. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions. Rising from humble beginnings in the 1830s ...

Blood vows: Joseph Smith, ... Joseph often mentioned that the angel Moroni refused to show him the golden plates until Joseph was married, and that Moroni specified Emma Hale as the desired spouse.

Latter-day Saints believe that Moroni, the final prophet from ancient America in the Book of Mormon, visited church founder Joseph Smith in a vision and told him where to find gold plates that ...

Similar angels would later appear on nearly all the church’s temples across the globe. The figure recalls the appearance of the angel Moroni to an adolescent Joseph Smith, the founder of the ...

Church history says Moroni was an ancient prophet in the Book of Mormon who revealed the location of golden plates to Joseph Smith in 1823. Smith became the church founder. The plates were the ...

A document crafted in 1843 by Joseph Smith to convert one person — wife Emma — to the practice of polygamy forces millions of Latter-day Saints to grapple with plural marriage nearly 177 years ...