Personally I would expect things surrounding a church to mention their holy figures, so I do not see it that way.
I’m not religious but I can certainly see the appeal of the community and belonging a church gives, which is why I believe theyre such good waypoints
Niantic is aware of these edits, they have commented on earlier posts about them. They have seen nothing wrong with the descriptions or name at this time.
95% of Niantic’s users are Go players.
94.5% of them don’t care about all those worthy, well researched descriptions we write out and never read them.
The 0.5% who do read them are already in a weird, little cult named The Wayfarer Program.
The church are not recruiting new soldiers through Niantic.
I read this thread, but I don’t see Niantic’s reply. Is there a different thread where they replied on this?
Came to find out what others are doing with these and what’s known about the source.
Fwiw, I will continue to accept the title and reject the description. I don’t like descriptions that read like ad copy (or SEO) for anything. The blank description is not necessarily inferior.
There has been nothing official from Niantic, other than to use our best judgment, like with all other reviews.
I will note that the title/description edit for the church in my city did eventually come up, I rejected both, and the title/description weren’t accepted here. I know the title was accepted in a couple other nearby cities, but in mine it was not. I rejected mainly due to what has been going around not being location-specific, whereas the other title option was location-specific.
I appreciate reading all the different perspectives on this. I live in an area with so many LDS churches that there are times most of my reviews in a session will be these edits so much so that I took a break from reviewing for a little while because I was so over it, lol. I figured that was better than me just auto annoyance-rejecting which is what was starting to happen, lol.
The description is “fine” but could definitely be better in my opinion, so I’ll usually accept them if the original was blank or just said “church” or something, but will reject if the original has better info, like some have historical info about when and how that particular building was built and such. I accept the title edits if the previous one was more generic, like “LDS Church” or just “Church,” but I reject the title edits if the original one is more descriptive of the location or who meets there, i.e. “Roosevelt Ward LDS Chapel” is a better title for a waypoint.
I’d say sometimes nothing is better than something. I would think that Niantic wouldn’t want companies and organizations dictate what this or that wayspot should be called and what descriptions should be there. It’s players who create wayspots, not companies and organizations, for other players. If any company or organization wants to promote themselves thru Niantic games, they should contact Niantic’s advertisement department, and then they can have whatever title and description they want, just like Starbucks in PoGo 
I was wondering the same thing. I saw quite a few while trying to go through nominations. I am wondering why that is myself.
I skip every single one of these. I do not want whoever is abusing edits this way to be rewarded. I am disappointed that Niantic has not pulled these edits. Making every church all over the country (world?) exactly the same goes against the idea of unique Wayspots. If they want them all the same, they should set up a sponsorship.
I had an LDS church description edit a few days ago in the UK but all they had done was add on the geographical location of the church at the end of ‘Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’
Nothing about visitors being welcome or not, sorry 'Murricans 
Hey, not all of the edits in the US are being accepted by the communities the churches are in. The one in my city, I remember getting the edits in June, and rejecting them, especially the title, as it had location info in it. Neither were accepted, but with ML these days, they certainly could be.