In a meeting Thursday morning, several high-ranking Latter-day Saint leaders and Vice President Mike Pence discussed a common concern: religious freedom in the United States and across the globe.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints want to be able to “go anywhere in the world to witness and testify to what we believe, and not be persecuted or threatened because of our position on Jesus Christ,” M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the faith’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, told reporters after his exchange with Pence. “Everybody should have the same opportunity.”
The vice president, an evangelical Christian, shares that view, the 90 year-old Ballard said.