The Beijing Shutdown: LDS Branches Forced to Close
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Bill Reel
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Something major just happened to the LDS Church in one of the world’s most powerful—and most tightly controlled—nations. A quiet move by a foreign government has suddenly upended worship for hundreds of members and raised serious questions about the future of the Church in a place it’s long tried to operate under the radar. Why… Read More »The Beijing Shutdown: LDS Branches Forced to Close
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the newscast, we need to start out acknowledging Lynn Whitesides passed away this morning. |
| 0:08.2 | One of the September 6th, she was disfellowshiped on September 14th, 1993. |
| 0:15.4 | Paul Tuscano, I think, says it best when he said, my friend, Lynn Whitesides died this morning. |
| 0:22.7 | This is a very sad news. Lynn was funny and deeply compassionate. She was also possibly the only person in Mormon history ever to be |
| 0:30.2 | permanently disfellowshiped. I'm the last of the September 6th, excommunicated from the LDS Church |
| 0:36.8 | in 1993, who is not |
| 0:39.5 | passed away or rebaptized. |
| 0:42.2 | And so tonight we remember Lynn White Sides. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome everybody to the Mormon newscast, RFM, Rebecca Biblioteca. |
| 0:50.2 | Glad to have you along. |
| 0:52.8 | Anything you want to say there there otherwise we'll jump right into |
| 0:56.6 | the stories for tonight i'm guessing he had to add the part about um either passed away or |
| 1:02.2 | rebaptized because of abraham uh abraham abliadi abraham and and maxine hanks who also |
| 1:10.5 | got rebaptized as well. |
| 1:13.9 | But yeah, the two of them. |
| 1:15.6 | So when you're permanently disfellowshiped, what happens then after you pass away? |
| 1:19.9 | I mean, we know Levina was, you know, rebaptized posthumously. |
| 1:24.6 | What happens in that case? |
| 1:31.0 | I don't know. Your disfellowshipment is lifted somehow through some kind of quasi ordinance. Yeah, that's what I wondered. I don't know. Yeah. So, folks, |
| 1:39.6 | the stories tonight, LDS Church, Shanghai, and that's brought to us by Radio Free Mormon. |
| 1:47.3 | No casting your net in Elko, Nevada. |
| 1:50.2 | Is that you, Rebecca? |
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