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In this Sunday, March 22, 2020 photo, Elder Chase Steuer, from Alpine, Utah, is mobbed by family members as he arrives from the Philippines at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Sen. Mitt Romney and Utah state leaders are criticizing a large gathering of family and friends who went to the Salt Lake City airport to welcome home missionaries when people are supposed to be keeping their distance from one another to prevent more spread of the coronavirus. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

In this Sunday, March 22, 2020 photo, Elder Chase Steuer, from Alpine, Utah, is mobbed by family members as he arrives from the Philippines at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Sen. Mitt Romney and Utah state leaders are criticizing a large gathering of family and friends who went to the Salt Lake City airport to welcome home missionaries when people are supposed to be keeping their distance from one another to prevent more spread of the coronavirus. (Rick Egan/The S…

March 23, 2020

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Mormons chided for airport welcoming of missionaries
March 23, 2020 6:59 p.m.

Mormons chided for airport welcoming of missionaries

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hours after hundreds of people welcoming missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints crowded together in an airport parking garage, authorities Monday announced new rules to prevent it from happening again during the coronavirus crisis.