Mormon Church leaders apologized Tuesday after the parents of the late Jewish rights advocate and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal were baptized by proxy in late January.Meanwhile, Holocaust survivor ...

So Mormons are out to baptize those who didn't have these restored baptisms. "This baptism is not binding on them unless they accept it," Cook continued. "They're given the opportunity.

And Mormons are instructed to only baptize family members, particularly after Jewish genealogists discovered in the 1990s that 380,000 Holocaust survivors had been vicariously baptized.

Mormons believe that everyone has to be baptized a Mormon in order to get into heaven. Posthumous baptisms are conducted primarily to allow Church members to give non-Mormon relatives a chance to ...

And Mormons are instructed to only baptize family members, particularly after Jewish genealogists discovered in the 1990s that 380,000 Holocaust survivors had been vicariously baptized.

And now she's baptized as a Mormon. Source: Famous Dead Mormons, New York Daily News. AP Now check out seven reasons why Tea Partiers should hate Rick Santorum >>>> Recommended video. Read next ...

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The Mormon church will no longer label same-sex couples “apostates” and will allow their children to be baptized into the church without special approval from church leaders, the church said ...

Technically, Pearl's baptism does not violate Mormon baptism rules because he was not a Holocaust victim. But followers have also been told to restrict posthumous baptisms to direct ancestors.

The baptism, in the eyes of Mormons, does not make the baptized a Mormon. The act only gives the baptized the option to select Mormonism, if the church’s view of the afterlife turns out to be ...

For Mormons, baptism by a living proxy for those who have died (so-called "baptism for the dead") is a biblical practice referenced by St. Paul in the New Testament Book of 1st Corinthians, ...