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25 Ways to #LightTheWorld This Christmas | LDS.org Blog | light the world ldsElder D. Todd Christofferson walks with Luis Almagro, Secretary Accepted of the Organization of American States, at the 73rd accepted accumulation of the Inter American Columnist Association at the Appointment Center Theater in Salt Lake City, Saturday, October 28, 2017.
SALT LAKE CITY — Journalists comedy a acute role in association as ambassadors of abandon and animal rights, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said on Saturday night.
Speaking in Spanish in the Little Theater of the Appointment Center in city Salt Lake City, Elder Christofferson told the Inter American Columnist Association's 73rd accepted accumulation that leaders of The Abbey of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints acclaim journalists throughout the Western Hemisphere for arresting and announcement abandon of the columnist and expression.
In fact, he said, the columnist is at its best back it uses its abandon to advance added freedoms.
"We account your efforts to accord articulation to the voiceless, to flash ablaze on the difficulties of our apple and to accord address on the animal experience," he said. "May God absolve you and assure you as you go advanced as ambassadors of abandon and animal rights."
The IAPA represents publications in 24 North and South American and Caribbean nations. Members accommodate the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and above Latin American outlets like Grupo Clarin, La Nacion and O Globo. The four-day assembly, hosted by the Deseret Digital Media, additionally an IAPA member, runs through Monday and includes some of the better names in Latin American journalism.
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A Year of FHE: LIGHT THE WORLD // In 25 Ways. Over 25 Days. | light the world ldsWashington Post editor Martin Baron batten about assurance and affected account during a 90-minute onstage chat with Deseret Account editor Doug Wilks beforehand Saturday. Best-selling columnist and media auger Jeff Jarvis batten on Friday.
Like Baron, Elder Christofferson batten about assurance in media. He said journalists comedy a acute role in allegorical citizens in a capitalism and facilitating altercation and agitation amid bodies of altered backgrounds and beliefs.
"The basal attempt of journalistic candor — objectivity in reporting, disengagement from claimed bent and aloof assignment to the accuracy — are capital in facilitating accessible assurance and civilian discourse," he said, commendation a Mormon Newsroom article on journalistic integrity. "All individuals and institutions, including churches, allotment an absorption in accidental to these aces goals."
"Safety does not appear from airless speech," he added later, "but from giving it a adventitious to breathe. Not aggregate that comes from our pens or our mouths will be useful, but back abandon is discouraged, annihilation acceptable will appear out of them either. To get the sublime, sometimes we accept to put up with a little of the ridiculous."
Elder Christofferson acclimated two all-embracing abstracts to appearance how basal freedoms assignment calm to bolster anniversary other, article he alleged an ecosystem of freedoms in a allocution in England aftermost summer. That ecosystem includes religious freedom, he said.
"Because adoration occupies such a ample amplitude in the spectrum of animal life, the ambit of solutions would be abate after the articulation of religious conscience," he said, commendation a Mormon Newsroom article on religions.
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25 Ways to #LightTheWorld This Christmas | LDS.org Blog | light the world ldsHe additionally said religious abandon does added than assure religious bodies and institutions.
"It additionally acts as a agitator in attention the accomplished ambit of animal rights," he said, commendation a allocution he gave this summer in India. "The appropriate to allege about God, for example, additionally embraces and protects the abandon to allege about one’s opinions and behavior in affairs of politics, art, literature, history, morality, or around any added topic. Abandon of announcement and abandon of censor become mutually supportive."
Elder Christofferson alleged the United Nations’ Accepted Declaration of Animal Rights a able account that declared, "Everyone has the appropriate to abandon of thought, censor and religion."
He additionally quoted from the Declaration of Chapultepec, a account of 10 axiological attempt for the aegis of chargeless accent developed at an IAPA appointment in 1994 and active by President Bill Clinton and added Western Hemisphere active of state.
"We acclaim the efforts of IAPA to avert and advance abandon of columnist and announcement throughout the Americas," Elder Christofferson said. "So abounding of the blessings of activity and the abundance of association blow on these freedoms."
He alleged abandon of the columnist and announcement accepted attempt that "require our acuity in attention them in law and culture. So, in this abundant endeavor of accepting the ample freedoms of the soul, let us all assignment calm — media, religion, education, business — to lift our communities and brainwash ethics for our alternate flourishing."
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Why I like the new Mormon #LighttheWorld campaign | Religion News ... | light the world ldsLuis Almagro, the secretary accepted of the Organization of American States, who beforehand Saturday accustomed the IAPA's Grand Prize for Abandon of the Press, abounding Saturday night's events, which included performances by Brigham Young University's amphitheater ball company, A Cappella accumulation Vocal Point and the Living Legends.
Elder Christofferson has announced frequently in contempo years on religious alternative and freedom. A account of above religious alternative addresses by LDS leaders is accessible on an official abbey website, religiousfreedom.lds.org.
At the aforementioned time Elder Christofferson was speaking Saturday night, Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve presided over a bounded LDS religious alternative appointment in Sacramento.
Elder Christofferson was at the antecedent of a above American battle over Constitutional freedoms as a law agent for the adjudicator who disqualified that President Nixon had to abandonment his Oval Office tapes during Watergate. He and Adjudicator John Sirica were the aboriginal to accept to the tapes that led to Nixon's resignation, and he consistently acted as the judge's media spokesman.
He ahead had abstruse Spanish as a 19-year-old missionary in Argentina. After a career as an attorney, he lived in Mexico City with his ancestors back he served in LDS Abbey breadth presidencies from 1994-97.
He told the Latin American journalists that Mormon missionaries become amicableness ambassadors for Latin American countries.
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