"Our preeminent obligation is to seek out and identify our own ancestors," says a letter to be read in every Mormon congregation. "Those whose names are submitted for proxy [baptisms] should be ...

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.

Top image: Doctor Who, “Let’s Kill Hitler” Releasing the dead from Spirit Prison So where does baptism for the dead even come from? It started at the same time as the Mormon faith itself ...

Convert baptisms surged last year to the highest level seen in nearly three decades, propelling global membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints past 17.5 million. The Utah ...

Many of the central concepts of the Mormon religion are laid out in the ... belief in the importance of repentance and baptism by immersion for the forgiveness of sins; and belief in the right ...

The Mormon church will no longer consider same ... Still, the child’s parents must give permission for the baptism and understand that the baptized child will be taught the faith and expected ...

Two beliefs of the Latter-day Saints that are key to the temple rituals are baptism of the dead by proxy and the sealing of married couples and their families for eternity. The church asserts that ...