What makes a good day? Try 40-plus baptisms, 22 professions of faith, and more than 1,000 people coming together for an ...

Begun in 2023, the Annual Jesus Revolution Baptism is a mass baptism event that embraces both the heritage and imagery of the ...

CATHOLIC GROUP CONDEMNS DOJ PRIORITIES AMID UPTICK IN VANDALISM AGAINST CHURCHES The archdiocese said Deacon Mark Springer, now retired, performed nearly 800 baptisms at St. Anastasia from 1986-99.

Thousands of baptisms by Arizona priest presumed invalid because of a slip of the tongue The Rev. Andres Arango served as a Roman Catholic priest in Arizona for 16 years, including at the St ...

Invalid baptisms in Arizona point to something very wrong in the Catholic ChurchThis is hardly a world-shattering act. In fact, several priests and congregations had adopted this formulation over ...

The Catholic Church said baptisms performed by priest, Rev. Andres Arango, who served in Arizona for 16 years are now presumed to be invalid because he used incorrect wording on a subtle but key ...

Totals of young full-time missionaries, convert baptisms, baptisms per missionary and the membership growth rate have become dismal data points for the church.

In terms of baptisms, they're right: In 2012, 60 percent of churches reported that they didn't baptize anyone aged 12 to 17, and 80 percent reported they had either zero or one baptism of someone ...

Posthumous baptisms are performed at the church’s 159 temples around the globe, mostly by young people. Members are escorted to a decorative baptismal font resting on statutes of 12 oxen.

Infant baptisms are encouraged, and the church urges parents to baptize babies within the first few weeks. Perhaps the liveliest baptism you could ever hope to witness is a Pentecostal one.

On Pentecost, Sunday, May 23, baptisms return to their normal time slot and in their usual group style. “Baptism is finally back where it belongs,” she said.

A Southern Baptist megachurch pastor in North Carolina, already under fire for buying a $1.6 million house, is in the spotlight for “spontaneous baptisms” that turned out to be not nearly so ...