As of the end of June, record-high convert baptisms during the past 12 months marked a milestone year for The Church of Jesus ...

From July 2024 to June 2025, the Church had the most convert baptisms of any 12-month period in its history. The calendar ...

A researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church's massive genealogical database says Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures ...

The church's practice of posthumous baptism has been under fire recently after it came to light that some church members had baptized Holocaust victims. The church said from now on anyone ...

The Roman Catholic Church declared Thursday that Mormon converts must be rebaptized, a setback to the Mormon Church's effort to characterize itself as a Christian denomination.

He wasn't Jewish and he wasn't a victim of the Holocaust, but the discovery of Jan Karski's name on Mormon proxy baptism records has angered those already upset about posthumous Mormon baptisms of ...

LDS chapels are accessible by anyone, member or non-member. Baptisms for the dead are the only temple rituals youth can be involved in by proxy.

The baptisms are generally completed by younger Latter-day Saints, between the ages of 12 and 20, with males and females being vicariously submerged for deceased persons of the same gender ...

A proxy baptism doesn’t mean that person automatically becomes a Latter-day Saint in heaven. Mormon doctrine holds that those who have passed on can choose to accept or reject this ordinance.

LDS leaders have apologized for the baptism of the parents of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, but the persistent posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims has outraged Jewish leaders. Plus ...

Many religious rites in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — from blessings and baptisms to confirmations and ordinations — are tactile experiences, requiring person-to-person ...

Mormons can participate in baptisms beginning at age 12, and the Mormon Explainer remembers being dunked repeatedly in a ceremonial tub on one of the lower levels of the Boston Temple.