Another Controversial Mormon Baptism: Slain Journalist Daniel Pearl : The Two-Way Pearl was Jewish and was captured and killed by terrorists while reporting in Pakistan in 2002.

Genealogical researchers discovered in Mormon baptism records the name of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who chronicled her family's hiding from the Nazis before being captured and sent to Auschwitz.

After discussions with Mokotoff and other Jewish leaders, the LDS church in 1995 established a rule barring baptisms of Holocaust victims except in rare cases where they are direct ancestors. It ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Posthumous baptism is common in the Mormon Church. The purpose is to ensure that ancestors can join church members in the afterlife. Individual Mormons submit to the church the names of persons ...

Researcher: Mormons are performing baptisms for Holocaust victims and grandparents of Trump, Clinton and Spielberg In this Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, photo, show Helen Radkey at her home in Holladay, Utah.

The Roman Catholic Church declared Thursday that Mormon converts must be rebaptized, a setback to the Mormon Church's effort to characterize itself as a Christian denomination.

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, ...

Mormons to allow baptisms for children of LGBTQ parents, won't expel those in same-sex marriages. Jorge L. Ortiz. USA TODAY. Gay Mormons won’t be kicked out of the church anymore, and they’ll ...

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

SALT LAKE CITY – The Latest on a Mormon conference in Salt Lake City(all times local): 11 a.m. A top Mormon leader is reminding church members about the importance of performing ceremonial ...