Why are they then baptized for the dead?” Mormons believe that Joseph Smith, their faith’s founding prophet, restored the apostolic practice after centuries of neglect by mainstream Christians.

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 ...

Why do Mormons baptize people after they're dead, and how do they do it? The controversial Mormon practice of baptizing non-Mormons after death has been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks ...

The Mormon Church responded by promising to purge its baptism rolls of holocaust victims and urge members to limit baptisms to relatives. But the unwelcome baptisms continued.

Discover ten notable figures who were posthumously baptized by Mormons, raising questions about religious practices and beliefs.

The Boston Globe reports this morning that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was baptized posthumously in a Mormon temple in Idaho last year. Pearl was Jewish and was captured and killed ...

Also, Mormons have baptized Richard Feynman, George Carlin, and Eazy-E, making for some interesting moments in the afterlife if the Mormon concept of life after death is correct.

Mormons practice baptism for the dead in special temple baptismal pools to offer salvation to ancestors who may not have had a chance to accept the Mormon faith.

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 ...

Members of the Mormon church posthumously baptized President Donald Trump's parents and grandparents, according to leaked documents from the whistle-blowing organization MormonLeaks, which aims to ...

Mormon children are baptized at age eight (the age of presumed accountability) to pattern our lives after Jesus Christ, who was also baptized.