The Mormon Church responded by promising to purge its baptism rolls of holocaust victims and urge members to limit baptisms to relatives. But the unwelcome baptisms continued.

As of the end of June, record-high convert baptisms during the past 12 months marked a milestone year for The Church of Jesus ...

Technically, Pearl's baptism does not violate Mormon baptism rules because he was not a Holocaust victim. But followers have also been told to restrict posthumous baptisms to direct ancestors.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Printouts and screenshots from ex-Mormon Helen Radkey's latest research show that despite church rules in the past five years proxy baptisms were performed on at least 20 ...

Religion Mormon Church to allow baptisms, blessings for children of LGBT parents, reversing 2015 policy April 4, 2019 More than 6 years ago Summary ...

Mormons don’t believe that they’re forcing their religion onto the dead, since the soul of the deceased needs to consent to the baptism from beyond the grave in order to become Mormon.

From July 2024 to June 2025, the Church had the most convert baptisms of any 12-month period in its history. The calendar ...

Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict ...

LDS leaders have apologized for the baptism of the parents of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, but the persistent posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims has outraged Jewish leaders. Plus ...

(RNS) The posthumous Mormon baptism of slain journalist Daniel Pearl shows that it's not just the proxy "baptism" of Holocaust victims that is problematic. Because of Judaism's communal sense of ...

Whistle-blowing ex-Mormon researcher Helen Radkey, who uncovered the proxy baptism records that made headlines recently, says an account she was surreptitiously using to gain access to the ...

The Mormon church is repealing rules that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and made same-sex relationships a sin worthy of expulsion.