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Mormon Church Will Sever Ties With Boy Scouts, Create Own Youth Program

The organizations have had a close relationship for more than a century. But the church hasn't always been happy with changes the Boy Scouts of America has made in recent years.
The Mormon church says it will end its relationship with the Boy Scouts of America and will create a youth development program of its own.

The Mormon church and the Boy Scouts of America have announced that they are ending their relationship, after more than 100 years of close ties.

In a , The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Boy Scouts said that as the church's membership is increasingly living outside the United States,

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