Russell M. Nelson, the oldest president of the Church of Jesus Christ, died at the age of 101.
A spokesman for Church, Candis Madsen, a spokesman for the church, confirmed in a statement.
Nelson had a lively and transformational tenure, especially in 2018, when he announced a surprise declaration and urged people to use the short names of “Mormon” and “LDS” as a full -fledged religion replacement, a dramatic change after previous churches.
The following year, he also made titles that banned the baptism for the children of gay parents and introduced as qualified sinners as gay couples. These 2015 policies had caused a widespread reaction.
But even if the Nelson government is more delicious and welcomed by the LGBTQ+ people than the former presidents, the church’s position on gay marriage would not change. His government also restricted laws that restrict the participation of members seeking gender -approved medical methods or renaming them, pronouns or how they dress, and criticized the Transgender members.
Nelson and one of his top advisers described their approach to LGBTQ+ members trying to balance “love for God and the law of God”.
The next president of faith, widely known as the Mormon Church, is not immediately named, but it is expected that in any church protocol, Dalin A. Ox. He is a member of the longest member of the Membership in the Twelve Rasul Church.
The Presidents of Faith in Utah are considered to be a prophet who leads the church through the revelations of God in collaboration with two senior advisers and members of twelve quota.
Nelson spent four decades at the highest level of church leadership after being elected in 1984 to join a top church entity called the Twelve Rasul quota. In January 2018, when Thomas S. Monson died, and in 2024 became the first president of faith to reach the Mark of the Century, ascending to the president.
Nelson was known for the church leadership through the Coveid-19 epidemic and cut off the bonds of the century with the vanguard’s sons, creating a program of youth church, which could also serve more than half of their 17 million members living outside the United States and Canada.
The separation came after the Boy Scouts of America decided to join the youth members of LGBTQ+ and adult volunteers.
During his tenure, the long -term investigation changed to the way that faith reported on sexual abuse of local leaders. The Associated Press research showed that sexual sexual abuse of this religion can be exploited by its leaders to abuse the accusations of abuse, and instead to the church lawyers who may bury the problem, and harm the victims.
Nelson leaders and churches defended their methods and said that the phone line “has everything to protect children and has nothing to do with cover.”
The church also received careful consideration of one -by -one, one -by -one interviews between young people and local adult leaders who may have questions about sexual identity and desire.
Faith has changed its guidelines for guiding non -spiritual leaders and never use the abuse report, more direct instructions than previous guidelines. It also allowed children to accompany parents or adults during interviews with leaders of the local church known as bishops.
During his tenure, Nelson also appointed non -US leaders as a senior and mostly US chief, and pushed to publish regional songs celebrating local music and culture around the world.
The President shortened Sunday services and accelerated the long -term pressure to build more temples, and despite resistance in some areas of the United States, it created the world with the houses of worship and worship.
He also worked with NAACP. By 1978, the church banned the black men from illegally priest, a policy that is rooted in the racist belief that black skin was cursed. The church rejected the reasons for the ban on an article in 2013, but never issued a formal apology. This is one of the most sensitive things for the church.
Nelson, born in 1924 in Salt Lake City, joined religion in adulthood. He was a physician at the age of 22 and performed a two -year medical task during a two -year Korean war, which included a medical work that included a chest surgery director at the University of Utah.
Nelson was known for his precise skill, which made him a successful surgeon at the time of the church leadership. “He was famous for his obedience to the law and what he called the” covenant “, a set of decrees and practices that show life in faith,” said Matthew Baman, a scholar Mormon, a professor of religion at the University of Clarmont graduates.
Nelson and his first wife, Dantezel White, had 10 children together. After died in 2005, Nelson married Wendy Watson in 2006.
