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Mormons, Jews reach pact on baptisms for the dead

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 Latter-day Saints said they now require church members to have a family relationship with the people they baptize by proxy. Mormons must also agree not to include Holocaust victims unless they are directly related to them, thereby preventing the mass submissions of such names that had occurred in the past.