{"id":665109,"date":"2025-09-29T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=665109"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:34:02","slug":"hindus-offer-condolences-on-mormon-president-nelsons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/665109\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus offer condolences on Mormon President Nelson\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-665110 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rajan-Zed-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"377\" \/>Hindus have offered condolences on the death of Russell Marion Nelson, 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormon Church, who died on September 27 in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA).<\/p>\n<p>Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that they were saddened by the passing of President Nelson, 101, whose energetic leadership was known for bridge-building across faiths, cultures, and political divides; calls for greater love and unity among people of diverse backgrounds; compassionate reform; connecting with people across continents; emphasizing inclusion and peacemaking, etc.<\/p>\n<p>A leader with kinder and gentler approach; highly influential Nelson was instrumental in leading the Church towards enhanced humanitarian aid, expanding community service projects, forging partnerships, fostering collaboration and mutual respect among religions\/denominations, guiding the church through the COVID-19 pandemic with messages of hope and spiritual strength, humanitarian outreach, increasing the church\u2019s international disaster response, prioritizing humanitarian aid, promoting interfaith dialogue, wide-ranging reforms, etc.; Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Rajan Zed further said that Nelson, a pioneering heart surgeon, has left a legacy marked by global outreach, institutional reform, spiritual focus, etc. He has led initiatives that have had a positive global impact.<\/p>\n<p>Zed has read invocations in 124 legislative bodies of Utah, including Utah Senate and House.<\/p>\n<p>Formally organized in upstate New York in 1830, LDS, now headquartered in Salt Lake City, has over 17.5 million members and 31,676 congregations worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindus have offered condolences on the death of Russell Marion Nelson, 17th\u00a0president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormon Church, who died on September 27 in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA). Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that they were saddened by the passing of President Nelson, 101, whose energetic leadership was known for bridge-building across faiths, cultures, and political divides; calls for greater love and unity among people of diverse backgrounds; compassionate reform; connecting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":665110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665111,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665109\/revisions\/665111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}