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 ...

The new restrictions also happen to keep watchdogs from searching church baptism records and exposing controversial baptisms that Mormon leaders have promised to block since 1995.

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 ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also instructed local leaders that same-sex couples are apostates, the church told NBC News.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is making it easier for children of polygamists to join the faith. Children, who wish to join the Church, can now be baptized at 8 years old ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is again warning its members not to submit names of Holocaust victims for proxy baptism. The statement comes on the same day of reports that Anne ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints removed the name of Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal from a list of those to be posthumously baptized, after the organization bearing ...

President Russell M. Nelson wants Jesus Christ front and center not only in the name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but also in the faith’s meetinghouses. To emphasize that ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is reversing its policies regarding blessings and baptisms forchildren with parents who identify as a part of the LGBTQ community,and same-sex ...

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 ...