The history department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the acquisition within the past two months of yet more fragments from the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon printer’s manuscript has been published virtually in its entirety, but what LDS historians consider the “crown jewel” of the book’s origin — the original manuscript handwritten as Joseph Smith dictated to scribes his translation of the Nephite record preserved on gold plates — exists only in fragmentary form.

Church leaders recently surprised the Church's only branch in Nepal with copies of the first Nepali translation of the Book of Mormon.

Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles brought the books with Elder Randy D. Funk, a General Authority Seventy and the Asia Area president, and President Kirt Hodges, president of the India New Delhi Mission. They shared their experience during an interview after a district conference in New Dehli a few days later.

New Interpreter article by David Callabro, talking about parallels between Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life and accounts in the Bible of the Creation and Fall narrative

An independent group is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a concept short of a potential feature-length blockbuster film on the Book of Mormon during the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.

"The Book of Mormon is unique in world scripture because its claimed divine origins can be evaluated by checking for concrete evidence in the real world. Until three or four decades ago the Book of Mormon’s claims about fortifications and warfare were ridiculed by famous scholars. The peaceful peoples of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica were simply devoted, said the authorities, to cultivating their fields of maize and beans.