Portal:Christianity/Selected article/September 2006
Salt Lake City, and its current president is Gordon B. Hinckley. The Church reports a worldwide membership of 12,560,869 as of December 31, 2005. The Church claims to be the exclusive restoration of the church founded by Jesus Christ and the sole source of priesthood authority necessary for the sacraments of salvation, such as baptism. This has led to extensive criticism from Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians, some of whom label it a "cult", "sect," or "heretical", or dispute that it is truly "Christian".
The practice of Mormons.
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