The bill, which now moves to the state's House of Representatives, aims to reduce the penalty for plural marriage from a felony to an infraction on par with a traffic ticket.

“That’s a man for you, duct tape and super glue,” one woman said.

Eight children, some mere infants, survived the ambush.

Mexico's Foreign Ministry said in a statement it extended the invitation through a diplomatic note to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.mexico

A number of American farming communities are clustered around the Chihuahua-Sonora state border with many members born in Mexico, giving them dual citizenship with the United States.

Gunmen have killed up to nine members of a U.S. Mormon family, believed to be mainly children, in the latest massacre to afflict Mexico, family members said.

What started out as a simple childhood friendship has blossomed out into building an important bridge among religious communities in the West Island.

The Mormon church said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America at the end of next year.

The ceremonies first drew public attention in the 1990s when it was discovered they were performed on a few hundred thousand Holocaust victims, which Jewish leaders condemned as grossly insensitive.

A video of a young Mormon girl revealing to her congregation that she is lesbian and still loved by God - before her microphone is turned off by local church leaders - has sparked new controversy.