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 by ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A group of Holocaust survivors says 14 years of negotiations with the Mormon church over posthumous baptism of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps have fallen apart. Some of the ...

A potential conflict between Jewish organizations and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over vicarious baptism was averted Monday when the church said that Simon Wiesenthal’s name was ...

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's name and those of his father and grandfather appeared on a list used to select people for posthumous Mormon... Elie Wiesel Shines Spotlight On Romney Over ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A new claim has surfaced that the Mormon church has posthumously baptized a Holocaust victim, this time Anne Frank. The allegations come just a week after The Church of Jesus ...

What do Gustav Mahler, Theodore Herzl and Mordecai Anielewicz share, other than their Jewish roots? The famed Austrian composer who converted to Catholicism, the founder of Zionism and the leader of ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints makes another attempt to address concerns of Jewish groups who complain that Holocaust victims are showing up on Mormon baptism rolls. Mormons believe ...

The Mormon Church is restricting access to its genealogical records relating to Holocaust victims in a move to protect their names for posthumous baptisms. “The church is committed to preventing the ...

Women and girls can now act as official witnesses in some Mormon rituals. While it may seem small, here's why it's actually a big deal. (RNS) — It seems like such a small thing: women and girls of a ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized, a controversial ...

The first Mormon leader to officially visit the Republic of Texas met with Sam Houston in 1844 to ask if members of his persecuted faith — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — could ...