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.

Mormon Baptism Controversy Now Includes Catholic Witness To Holocaust : The Two-Way Jan Karski's biographer, who credits him with providing the first detailed descriptions of the systematic ...

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 ...

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.

Mormon Church to allow baptisms, blessings for children of LGBT parents, reversing 2015 policy. April 4, 2019. The angel Moroni statue, silhouetted against the sky, sits atop the Salt Lake Temple ...

(Courtesy of the LDS Church) Baptismal-font-bearing oxen statue in the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple, where faithful Mormons perform posthumous baptisms.

Youth who are 16 are ordained as preists in the LDS faith and currently can perform baptisms for living members at church or in other approved water. Mormons baptize by full immersion.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is investigating the posthumous "baptism" of President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, as a "serious breach" of religious code, a ...

The Mormon belief in restored Gospel, priesthood authority, necessity of baptism, confirmation, temple ordinances, and other keys and requirements to eternal progression, are underscored in Hale ...