(KUTV) The LDS church will change the way adolescents in its youth programs participate in temple activities. The change will be announced in LDS congregations this Sunday when bishops -- leaders of ...

The controversy over LDS proxy baptisms is continuing as reports emerged earlier this week that well-known peace leader Mahatma Gandhi was posthumously baptised by the LDS church back in 1996. Hindu ...

(RNS) The posthumous Mormon baptism of slain journalist Daniel Pearl shows that it's not just the proxy "baptism" of Holocaust victims that is problematic. Because of Judaism's communal sense of ...

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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The new rules for baptism involving same-sex families is a major shift for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After what some called "The November policy" was ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday a major shift in its policy regarding baptisms of children of parents who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, ...

With my faith’s practice of baptism for the dead, in my opinion, so misunderstood, it was interesting that this five-page Heber Q. Hale “vision” fell on my desk. It alleges to be a divine vision of ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is investigating the posthumous "baptism" of President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, as a "serious breach" of religious code, a spokeswoman ...

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 contact.

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 ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that a dead person can be baptised by proxy, which means that a Mormon can be baptised on behalf of someone who has already died. Mormons ...