{"id":316088,"date":"2026-03-01T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316088\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:37:30","slug":"church-statement-on-the-evolving-situation-in-iran-church-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316088\/","title":{"rendered":"Church statement on the evolving situation in Iran \u2013 Church News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In light of news from the Middle East, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement on Feb. 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/church-statement-iran-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/church-statement-iran-middle-east\">through ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is closely monitoring the evolving situation and military strikes that occurred this morning in Iran and elsewhere in the region. We express our profound concern and heartfelt compassion for all those living in harm\u2019s way. We join in prayer with families worldwide who have loved ones in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe safety and well-being of people are always a priority in a situation of this kind. This region is home to thousands of Church members. We are in regular contact with Church leaders responsible for the students, faculty and humanitarian service volunteers serving throughout the Middle East, all of whom are accounted for and safe at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies provided <a href=\"https:\/\/jerusalemcenter.ce.byu.edu\/security-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/jerusalemcenter.ce.byu.edu\/security-updates\">a security update on its website<\/a> on Feb. 28 as well, explaining that because Church services are held on Saturday morning in Jerusalem, everyone living in the center was in the building when the hostilities began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cChurch services were held as scheduled,\u201d the update said. \u201cThose living at the center have been asked to remain in the center through the weekend. Restrictions on travel will be updated each day thereafter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In light of news from the Middle East, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7727,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-316088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-global","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}