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 ...

Mormon practice of posthumous baptism draws ire According to church teachings, ritual gives the deceased a choice in the afterlife Uncategorized Jan 5, 2018 ...

Proxy baptisms are tied to a core church teaching that families spend eternity together, but the baptisms do not automatically convert dead people to Mormonism.

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 to restrict ...

The rules banned baptisms for children living with gay parents until they turn 18, disavowed same-sex relationships and received approval from global church leaders.

The Mormon church is repealing rules that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and made same-sex relationships a sin worthy of expulsion.

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.

A researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church's massive genealogical database says Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures ...

Baptisms for the dead, as they are called in Mormonism, are common in the Mormon church, as Mormons believe that those who do not get baptized into the church while alive can still make it to 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 ...