(RNS) Seven years after its original vow to end the practice of baptizing deceased Jews by proxy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has renewed its promise after the practice was discovered to have continued.

Church officials traveled to New York to consult with Jewish leaders on how to resolve the conflict, which arose when the former chairman of the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, Ernest Michel, notified the church that the practice was again a problem.

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Michel discovered that the church's International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes as many as 20,000 Holocaust victims that have been baptized by proxy.

In 1995, the church identified 380,000 Holocaust victims in the IGI and removed the names, pledging to help church members refrain from posthumously baptizing Jews who were not related to them.