Daniel Pearl Posthumously Baptized by Mormons
Daniel Pearl, the Jewish-American Wall Street Journal reporter notoriously executed by terrorists in Pakistan in the months after 9/11, has been posthumously baptized by Mormons, reports the Boston Globe.
Helen Radkey, an excommunicated Mormon who combs through the church’s archives, said that records indicate Pearl, who was Jewish, was baptized by proxy on June 1, 2011 at a Mormon temple in Twin Falls, Idaho.
“It’s a lack of respect for Danny and a lack of respect for his parents,” Pearl’s widow Mariane told the Globe.
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