Please stop calling us Mormons, says world's leading Mormon

Church president Russell M Nelson says the faith should only be referred to by its full, 11-syllable name

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue, which is probably why both followers of the church and the general public have tended to refer to the religion as Mormonism, after the group’s most holy text, the Book of Mormon.

Russell M Nelson, president of the church and the world’s most senior Mormon, says this cannot go on. In a statement released on Friday, he demanded that only the church’s full name be used from now on.

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