{"id":743177,"date":"2026-07-04T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743177\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:05:11","slug":"video-elder-rasband-celebrates-love-religious-freedom-in-u-s-church-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743177\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Elder Rasband celebrates love, religious freedom in U.S. \u2013 Church News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking on the week of the United States\u2019 250th birthday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/2015\/10\/15\/23222708\/elder-ronald-a-rasband-apostle-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elder Ronald A. Rasband<\/a> of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles asked, \u201cIf religion is not there to help with shaping character and mediating hard times, who will be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Elder Rasband was the keynote speaker in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/leaders\/2026\/06\/29\/elder-ronald-a-rasband-lord-preserved-us-great-unfolding-of-gospel-freedom-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 Patriotic Service<\/a> of America\u2019s Freedom Festival in Provo, Utah, on Sunday, June 28.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a new Church News video titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DvbWpwyNTh0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DvbWpwyNTh0\">Elder Rasband Speaks at Freedom Festival<\/a>,\u201d the Apostle celebrates liberty, love and religious freedom in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis promised land is a stepping stone to life eternal, to the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ \u2014 if we live faithfully. That is why it is called the promised land. That is why we love our country. That is why we love our Lord and Savior.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on the week of the United States\u2019 250th birthday, Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,57362,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-743177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-america-250","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}