In 2022, FLDS Church leader Samuel Bateman was found to have 20 wives, which included underage girls, and, according to his family, also sought to marry his teenage daughter. [114]

Apr 20, 2008 · In the 1930s, two families, the Jessops and the Barlows, settled the area around Hildale, Utah, along the border with Arizona, where they founded the FDLS — and began handing down to their...

Jun 22, 2023 · Former members of FLDS fear their missing children are part of a suicide pact orchestrated from behind bars by the church's leader, Warren Jeffs.

May 7, 2015 · FLDS ancestors broke away from the Mormon Church over the issue of polygamy after the church renounced its practice. The FLDS, a polygamist sect, dominates the twin towns of Colorado City, Arizona ...

May 19, 2017 · FLDS families are being evicted leaving thousands of women and children stranded with nowhere to go. As a condition to receive relief, they are being asked to deny their religion.

Feb 27, 2024 · When polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church in 1890, splinter groups formed, including the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, in which members could practice polygamy – or "plural marriage" – discreetly, without persecution.

When families are being displaced and are without food or housing, people must mobilize to aid and provide relief to those people. There is a humanitarian crisis developing in our own backyard....

Jun 24, 2019 · And because FLDS families don’t send their kids to public school, many of their children receive just a few hours of home-school a day and then are left to entertain themselves. Kids break into...

Jan 24, 2023 · MONTEVIEW — Elizabeth Roundy believes her daughter is hiding with members of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the concerned mother is worried church leaders may...

May 8, 2009 · The FLDS believe families can be eternal, that is, that they can exist after this life. “Here, you earn the right to live as family in the next life. In time, you will be raised out of the grave and live in families in heaven” (WSJ 10/31/95) But families are …