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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

11 a.m. A top Mormon leader is reminding church members about the importance of performing ceremonial baptisms for deceased ancestors who didn't receive the ordinance while alive.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it would allow baptism of children of married same-sex parents as part of a reversal of a 2015 policy that labeled gay couples as ...

Mormons Offer More Than a Prayer for the Dead Proxy Baptisms for the Departed Are Meant as an Eternal Favor but Are Sometimes Seen as Offensive ...

Although the Mormon Church now says its policy limits posthumous baptisms to direct ancestors of its members, it acknowledges that the policy is sometimes violated.

For Mormons, baptism by a living proxy for those who have died (so-called "baptism for the dead") is a biblical practice referenced by St. Paul in the New Testament Book of 1st Corinthians, and it ...

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