Hill believed it. Intelligence agencies in Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, China and Egypt believed it. The WMDs weren’t found – though Bush does invoke the moral high ground: “I’ve also wondered why many critics of the war did not acknowledge...

He died with the blue tattooed numbers of Auschwitz on his left arm for the “crime” of being Jewish. That Elie Wiesel asked Mitt Romney to address this issue is not enough [ “Wiesel asks Romney to address proxy baptisms of Jews,” news story, Feb. 15]. ...

We are grateful to activist Helen Radkey for exposing the latest outrage.” Elie Wiesel’s protest of this practice has gained headlines around the world and his latest burst of outrage is something to mark. a formerly-Mormon researcher, Helen Radkey,...

Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate, whose name was entered into a database so that he could be baptized in a Mormon ritual after his death, said yesterday he wants Mitt Romney to speak out against the Mormon practice of...

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner, whose parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon ritual last month, said yesterday he continues to be frustrated with Mitt Romney for not speaking out against the practice. “He is a Mormon,...

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for a Mormon who baptized the late parents of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. But despite calls this week from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and others to rethink the controversial rite,...

"I think it's scandalous," Wiesel told the Huffington Post after the story broke earlier this week that his name, along with his father's and maternal grandfather's, appeared on the database. "Not only objectionable, it's scandalous." Baptismal fonts,...

The Florida Holocaust Museum will celebrate its 20th anniversary at "To Life," its annual fundraiser, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Progress Energy Center for the Arts — The Mahaffey, 400 First St. S, St. Petersburg. The evening will honor Nobel...

Wiesel said he hoped Romney would get involved after it was reported that Wiesel's name and those of his father and grandfather were found on a genealogical database kept by the church. A church spokesman said that the Wiesel names "were not submitted...

If nothing else, Romney’s candidacy will expose the American public’s perception of the Church of Latter-day Saints, the largest and most influential religion born on our soil. In the event Romney manages to secure the GOP nomination, we’ll be seeing...

I’m right and they’re wrong, it doesn’t affect me because I wasn’t complicit in my false baptism. But if they’re right and I’m wrong – I get to go to Mormon heaven. (Of course, the Wahhabi Muslims might be right – in which case we’re all screwed.)...

Which is how Romney found himself this week in an awkward face-off with octogenarian Nobel Laureate (and Holocaust survivor who, according to Huffington Post has been shortlisted for posthumous baptism himself) Elie Wiesel. Wiesel told the HuffPo that...

2010 Posted by: Ryn March 14, 2010 Posted by: pgf202 March 21, 2010 Posted by: SHG47 March 11, 2010 Posted by: Ryn March 14, 2010 Posted by: SHG47 March 11, 2010 Posted by: GusWho March 11, 2010 The CNN Belief Blog covers the faith angles of the day's...

“FYI, discovered today: Posthumous baptisms for the parents of Simon Wiesenthal,” Radkey wrote. “I am collecting evidence, which will be e-mailed to you, if requested, as long as there is a public stink.” The Wiesenthal Center obliged, and a week later,...

Wiesel, who survived the Nazi genocide, replied “that you can get away with it!” Those words came to mind when Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered his armed forces to crush the revolt against his authoritarian regime that began early last year and...

The church also acknowledged that one of its members tried to baptize posthumously three relatives of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The efforts, at least in Wiesenthal's case, violated the terms of an agreement that the church signed in 1995, in...

(Wiesel’s name was also located in the LDS genealogical database by Salt Lake City-based watchdog Helen Radkey, but Church officials clarified that the names of Mr. Wiesel and his relatives were never submitted for baptism.)

(RNS) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for a Mormon who baptized the late parents of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. But despite calls this week from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and others to rethink the...

I'm not looking forward to tonight. What I've seen is going to turn over in my head." As at Auschwitz, there are occasional stops for group members to read out relevant passages from the works of well-known survivors such as Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.