disturbing: slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl Posthumously Baptized by Mormon Church

"Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was captured and killed by terrorists in Pakistan following the Sept. 11 attacks, was posthumously baptized last year by the Mormon Church.

The Boston Globe reports that Helen Radkey, an excommunicated Mormon who regularly combs through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints archives, found that the slain Jewish journalist had been baptized by proxy on June 1, 2011, at a Mormon temple in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Radkey has voiced similar discoveries about the controversial church practice in the past. She broke the news that Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal and Anne Frank have also been on the baptism list.

A spokesman for the Mormon church told the Los Angeles Times that Pearl's posthumous baptism was a breach of protocol. But Daniel's father, Judea Pearl, told the Times that no one from the church had contacted him to apologize for the proxy baptism, which is common practice in the Mormon religion."

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