This week, LDS Church leaders apologized for the unauthorized proxy baptism of the parents of Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and punished Mormons responsible for the violation of ...

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

SALT LAKE CITY — A group of Holocaust survivors says 14 years of negotiations with the Mormon church over posthumous baptism of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps have fallen apart. Some of the ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints makes another attempt to address concerns of Jewish groups who complain that Holocaust victims are showing up on Mormon baptism rolls. Mormons believe ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- 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 ...

The Mormon Church has removed the name of the late Simon Wiesenthal from its international genealogical index, avoiding a new dispute over accusations that the Church conducts vicarious baptisms for ...

What do Gustav Mahler, Theodore Herzl and Mordecai Anielewicz share, other than their Jewish roots? The famed Austrian composer who converted to Catholicism, the founder of Zionism and the leader of ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon leaders reminded church members Saturday about the importance of performing ceremonial baptisms on dead ancestors who didn't receive the ordinance while alive -- a practice ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized, a controversial ...

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