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Sarah Jane Weaver
Sarah Jane Weaver

Sarah Jane Weaver is the executive editor of the Church News. Since 1995 she has covered, among other things, the Church’s welfare services, Church Education and social issues impacting Latter-day Saints. Her favorite assignments include reporting on temple dedications and writing about members around the world. Sarah graduated from BYU with a degree in journalism and history and served as editor in chief of the BYU student newspaper, the Daily Universe. Before joining the Deseret News staff, she completed a Pulliam Fellowship at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Ariz.


Church News podcast features LeAnna Willmore, Bells at Temple Square conductor, as well as selected music from the handbell ensemble.

After more than three decades as the voice of "Music & the Spoken Word," Lloyd D. Newell joins the Church News podcast to share his memories.

In the Church News video “Jesus Christ Is Relief,” the Relief Society general presidency members — President Camille N. Johnson, Sister J. Anette Dennis and Sister Kristin M. Yee — speak about offering relief to a global community.

"I often tell people that the greatest period of my growth as an Apostle was the two years in the Philippines," said President Oaks in this Church News video titled "The Period of Greatest Learning."

Four years after the Salt Lake Temple closed in January 2020 for extensive renovations, the managing director of the Church’s Special Projects Department, and the director of historic temple renovations join the Church News podcast.

"Center your life in your faith in Jesus Christ and in the ordinances, covenants and teachings of His holy house," Elder Andersen told BYU–Idaho students.

A senior sister missionary from Texas serving in the California Fresno Mission died Saturday in a car accident in Fresno County, California.

"Time in the temple will help you ... catch a vision of who you really are, who you can become and the kind of life you can have forever," said President Russell M. Nelson.

In this Church News video, titled "Very Much Grateful," President Dallin H. Oaks and Sister Kristen M. Oaks share how teaching women was the way to move the work forward.

Church News podcast highlights the legacy and mission of the Deseret News and shares the experiences of Deseret News opinion editor Jay Evensen.

Latter-day Saint steeplechaser Courtney Wayment joins the Church News podcast to talk about her remarkable career, running and preparing for the Olympic Games.

In this Church News video, President and Sister Oaks testify of the need to fill temples, not just build temples.

"A temple dedication also reminds us to rededicate ourselves to faithfulness in the work of the Lord," said President Dallin H. Oaks.

President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency, dedicated the Urdaneta Philippines Temple — the Church’s 190th and 3rd in the Philippines — 20 years after he served there on a special assignment as an Apostle.

From 2002 to 2004, President Dallin H. Oaks and his wife, Sister Kristen Oaks, lived and served in the Philippines, where they helped ‘establish the Church’ and experienced great personal growth

Sustained as a general authority during April 2024 general conference, Elder Buckner raised his family and runs his company from the same building in Manhattan.

In this Church News video “Establishing the Church,” President Dallin H. Oaks and Sister Kristen Oaks reflect on serving in the Philippines 20 years ago and share their love for the people there.

President Dallin H. Oaks and Sister Kristen M. Oaks join the Church News podcast to share memories of the two years they lived in the Philippines from 2002 to 2004.

"Regular temple worship will enhance the way you see yourself and how you fit into God’s magnificent plan," promises President Russell M. Nelson.

Church News editor Ryan Jensen shares about working with prophets and apostles and his family’s struggles with Huntington’s disease.

In the Church News video “Fortify Spiritual Foundations,” see the Angel Moroni statue being placed back on the Salt Lake Temple, and also hear what Bishop Gérald Caussé and Emily Utt said at the event.

This special edition of the Church News podcast features excerpts from every general conference talk, including President Nelson’s invitation to "rejoice in the gift of priesthood keys."

"All of us in the pursuit of our duty touch the lives of others," said President Gordon B. Hinckley almost three decades ago during April 1995 general conference.

In the Church News video "Global Church," a trio of students share how being at BYU–Hawaii has helped them increase in perspective, hope, humility and opportunities in Laie.

Now in his 100th year, President Nelson addresses his age — and the age of other Latter-day Saint leaders — on social media before general conference.

This episode of the Church News podcast explores the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra’s "Hope" tour stop in the Philippines with Elder Neil L. Andersen, choir President Michael O. Leavitt, director Mack Wilberg and singer Lea Salonga

"As we speak of our temples old and new, may each of us signify by our actions that we are true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ," said President Russell M. Nelson.

Church News video “Aloha Spirit” highlights BYU–Hawaii and Polynesian Cultural Center leaders and students on how the gospel connects cultures together. Watch it here.

P. Alfred Grace, president and CEO of the Polynesian Cultural Center, shares the history and values of the cultural center, where many BYU–Hawaii students work.

CES’ Asia/Pacific capstone brings together countries and cultures; the campus community is "one in Christ," said BYU–Hawaii President John S.K. Kauwe III.