Persistent pressure and criticism have prompted the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to erect a new "technological barrier" in the system used for controversial posthumous or proxy baptisms ...

Two decades of anger, apologies and agreements have failed to keep the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from ending posthumous Mormon baptisms of prominent Jews and holocaust victims. In ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for posthumous baptism by ...

Yesterday, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendents and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a new agreement to protect the names of Holocaust ...

Mormons around the world are getting this warning Sunday: Stop posthumous baptisms of "unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims." "Our preeminent obligation is to seek out ...

Why do Mormons baptize people after they’re dead, and how do they do it? The controversial Mormon practice of baptizing non-Mormons after death has been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks, as ...

He wasn't Jewish and he wasn't a victim of the Holocaust, but the discovery of Jan Karski's name on Mormon proxy baptism records has angered those already upset about posthumous Mormon baptisms of ...

The Boston Globe reports this morning that Wall Street Journalreporter was baptized posthumously in a Mormon temple in Idaho last year. Pearl was Jewish and was captured and killed by terrorists while ...

The Mormon Church apologized Tuesday for a “serious breach of protocol” after it was discovered that the parents of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized as Mormons. The ...