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 (AP) – A new claim has surfaced that the Mormon church has posthumously baptized a Holocaust victim, this time Anne Frank. The allegations come just a week after The Church of Jesus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims ...