SALT LAKE CITYSALT LAKE CITY — A Las Vegas man injured while performing submersion baptisms in the name of the dead has sued The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for medical expenses. The ...
The Mormon Church and Jewish leaders have resolved a dispute over the church’s posthumous baptisms by proxy of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. (JTA) — The Mormon Church and a Jewish group have ...
Southern Baptists reported a 2.2 percent increase in baptisms in 2009, stemming a four-year decline, but membership in the denomination fell and the sagging economy led to a drop in missions giving, ...
Computer technology credited for ‘breakthrough’ on exemption of Holocaust victims for proxy ritual. Two years after a rupture in Mormon-Jewish relations in America, leaders of the two groups believe ...
The net losses in membership in 2009 amounted to the lowest yearly drop in the last decade for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), though the 3 percent decrease to 2,077,138 members was part of a good ...
WASHINGTON (EWTN News) — A new study shows that infant baptisms in the Catholic Church have been declining year by year along with the birth rate in the U.S. The numbers “are generally moving in step ...
Jewish and Mormon officials have an­nounced that church policies preventing the posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims have reduced tensions between them. Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of ...
Beneath a cloudless sky on a recent Sunday afternoon, John Oswald made a public profession of his Christian faith as he stood in the waters of Lake Michigan. Oswald, 43, of Libertyville, is a member ...
“As for that,” said Waldershare, “sensible men are all of the same religion.” “And pray, what is that?” inquired the prince, “Sensible men never tell. “ Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion The Mormons are ...
As the U.S. Catholic bishops consider a common agreement on baptism with four Protestant church communities, they “stand at an important juncture” in the quest for Christian unity, according to the ...
WASHINGTON — Representatives of the U.S. bishops’ conference and four Reformed Christian denominations have publicly affirmed that they recognize each other’s baptisms as valid. “We are overjoyed at ...
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: Tourism is big business in the Holy Land. Millions of Christians comes here for the chance to retrace the footsteps of Christ. Among their most sacred rituals is to ...