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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 ...

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.

(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 ...

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 ...