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Hill Cumorah Pageant canceled for final year
The Hill Cumorah Pageant will not be performed this year for the final time.
The pageant, which was slated to end in its 83rd year in 2020, originally was postponed for this summer. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will broadcast the 2019 Hill Cumorah Pageant to commemorate the contributions of volunteer participants through the years.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we don’t have the opportunity to continue to present the pageant,” President Neil Pitts said. “The pageant has had a long and successful run. The world is in a place today where we just cannot continue.
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Unlike most talks given at BYU by church leaders, the landmark response of a Latter-day Saint apostle to the murderous spree of forgings and bombings by Mark Hofmann recently featured in “Murder Among the Mormons” can’t be found on speeches.byu.edu.
There’s a simple reason for that, and it has nothing to do covering up church history. In fact in his talk at BYU, then-Elder Dallin H. Oaks issued a scathing reprimand to a major news organization that spent a year insisting the church was covering up a document until it was proved that the document never existed. In fact, and this is mind-boggling, it was Hofmann himself that had deceived the newspaper into believing the document was real and in possession of the church.
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