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LOS ANGELES - The Mormon Church on Tuesday apologized that its members had performed posthumous baptisms into Mormonism of the long-dead Jewish parents of famed Nazi hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal. The baptisms "by proxy" were performed ...  

Mormon church seeks to boost party caucus turnout By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 14, 2012 06:55AM MDT The LDS Church’s top leaders are telling their Utah congregations, in stronger-than-usual language, to cancel meetings when parties hold their caucuses next month and strongly encouraging Mormons to attend those political gatherings instead. Critics of the caucus system praised the move, saying it may help...  

http://news.yahoo.com/mormons-apologize-posthumous-jewish-baptism-190124456.html I suppose the Mormon Church feel that there aren't enough born or consentingly converted Mormons- and that they have the right to create new ones- by baptising ...  

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon church leaders have apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon temple ritual last month. Salt Lake City researcher ...  

Mormon acts of charity Published Feb 14, 2012 01:01AM MDT Ed Firmage describes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as living “increasingly in the head, and only in the head” (“LDS Church can be relevant in Internet age“ (Opinion, Feb. 5). He must not be paying attention. No one organization can do everything, and because the LDS Church is not at the forefront of Firmage’s pet causes, he thinks members do nothing but think...