The Observer | International |
Nov 26, 2003 Uncategorized
The Observer | International | Russians fume as Mormons ‘buy souls’: “The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed its outrage at what it claims is a Mormon scheme to buy up the names of dead Russians in order to baptise ‘dead souls’ in their faith.
In one archive, in the town of Nizhni Novgorod, east of Moscow, the Church of the Latter Day Saints has paid ten US cents for each page of thousands of names of dead people dating mainly from the late eighteenth century to be put on a microfilm.
The idea, the last-ditch attempt of a cash-strapped archive to fund urgent preservation work, has caused fury among the predominantly Orthodox nation. The Mormon Church is angry at what it sees as an obstruction to its religious practices. “
December 12th, 2003 at 1:57 am
Hello,
While searching for my last name on a very popular search engine I came across your site and was interested by your article on Mormonsim and the Russian Orthodox Church. It should be known that Mormons throughout the world engage in this practice and it is not limited to Russia. I personally live in an area of Canada which is heavy in LDS concentration and the culture is predominatly Mormon. Understanding the strong Christian theological disagreements with the LDS faith, and my own personal disagreement with the concept of post-humous baptisim, I none the less believe that they should be entitled to the feedoms of religion like all others. Further if Christianity is in the right than I don’t feel that the religion should be threatened by this practice.
On another note, this is an excellent site, and all the best.
Lynn from Canada