THE Mormon Church in Ireland is being sued for damages by a young woman who claims its members tried to cover up that she was repeatedly sexually abused by one of the church’s elders.

The US Boy Scouts organisation has been ordered to pay $1.4m (€1m) to a man who claimed he was sexually abused by a leader as a child.

An elder of a polygamist sect and two other church members surrendered to Texas authorities to face charges over the marriage of underage girls to older men.

Utah’s growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Mormon church for its aggressive promotion of California’s ban on gay marriage.

THE Mormon community in Ireland have moved to quell concerns about their practice of baptising dead Catholics into the Mormon faith.

Texas child welfare chiefs have asked a judge to put eight children from a polygamist sect’s ranch back into foster care because their mothers refuse to limit their contact with men accused of being involved in underage marriages.

A JUDGE yesterday ordered the immediate return of more than 400 US children taken into care from a polygamist sect’s ranch.

More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect in what authorities described as the largest child-welfare operation in Texas history.

Funeral services for Mormon church president Gordon B. Hinckley this week could draw tens of thousands of mourners with the church estimating that between 50,000 and 160,000 will attend two days of public viewing and Saturday’s funeral.

An American polygamous-sect leader was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for his role in the arranged marriage of teenage cousins.

The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group has been convicted in the US of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.

After three months on the FBI’s Most Wanted List and two years on the run, the fugitive life of the US leader of a polygamist religious sect ended with a routine traffic stop.

A polygamist Mormon sect leader who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List has been arrested and faces sexual misconduct charges for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men, authorities in Las Vegas said today.

The president of the Mormon church travelled to the Vermont hillside where the church’s founder, Josephy Smith, was believed to have been born, in preparation for a celebration today to mark the 200th anniversary of Smith’s birth.

A small-town judge removed from office because he has three wives faced a hearing before the Utah Supreme Court today in his bid to remain on the bench.

Tom Green believes it’s his outspoken nature more than his polygamist lifestyle that has led to his prosecution in Utah’s first high-profile bigamy case in 50 years.