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‘We know it’s going to be challenge,’ Nelson says, but the church’s proper name is ‘not negotiable’ — ‘It’s not Mormon’s church'

If people within and without The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints think the Utah-based faith is going to abandon anytime soon the latest push to jettison popular references to the nicknames “Mormon” and “LDS” when describing the religion — as has happened before — they best think again.

This past weekend, church President Russell M. Nelson reaffirmed his commitment to the cause during a visit to Canada.

“We know that it's going to be a challenge to undo tradition of more than a hundred years,” he told a congregation of Latter-day Saints in Montreal.