Kandi Bailey, care pastor at GrowLife Church of Land O'Lakes, Florida, one of the participating congregations in Baptize America, told CP that her congregation saw 22 people baptized.

What’s Wrong With ‘We Baptize’ and Other Liturgical Abuses When the sacred liturgy is treated as a plaything, people will suffer.

Since this policy is difficult to enforce, some Mormons do baptize more widely. To the extent that a “Do Not Baptize” list exists, it includes only the names of Holocaust victims.

And Mormons are instructed to only baptize family members, particularly after Jewish genealogists discovered in the 1990s that 380,000 Holocaust survivors had been vicariously baptized.

The church’s proclivity to baptize is captured in the Acts of the Apostles (8:26-40). The words jump out with enthusiasm and joy as the Ethiopian eunuch says: “Look there is water.

The Vatican says transgender people can be baptized within the church, as long as doing so doesn't create "public scandal or confusion among the faithful." The statement from the Vatican's ...