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 ...

Radkey, who left the LDS Church in the mid-1970s and was later excommunicated after publicly criticizing it, was blocked from the part of the database that shows the baptisms until recently ...

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

After discussions with Mokotoff and other Jewish leaders, the LDS church in 1995 established a rule barring baptisms of Holocaust victims except in rare cases where they are direct ancestors.

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To gain statehood, Mormon-dominated Utah outlawed polygamy in 1890. In the aftermath of the U.S. civil rights struggle, the church dropped its bar to blacks becoming Mormon priests in 1978.

After discussions with Mokotoff and other Jewish leaders, the LDS church in 1995 established a rule barring baptisms of Holocaust victims except in rare cases where they are direct ancestors.

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

Mormons to allow baptisms for children of LGBTQ parents, won't expel those in same-sex marriages Jorge L. Ortiz USA TODAY ...