(RNS) The sprinkling-style baptism of a Dayton, Ohio, infant—a scene heartwarming and commonplace for Catholics and many mainline Protestants—is touching off accusations of doctrinal heresy in the ...

Baptism is a ceremony that symbolises a commitment to living a life as a Christian. Jesus was baptised in the New Testament ...

FLEMINGTON - Cherryville Baptist Church held its annual riverside baptism Sunday morning. This is the third year the church has done the riverside baptism, which took place alongside the Raritan River ...

An introduction to Baptist churches, which together form the fifth largest Christian group in the world: their history, organisation and beliefs, including baptism of believers by full immersion.

After theology professor Gregg Allison taught about the Holy Spirit to a group of Southern Baptists, an older man approached him. The man said he had been ...

POTTSTOWN>> The winter of 1857-58 was brutally cold. Temperatures stayed so low for so long that by February the Schuylkill River at Pottstown was frozen solid. With ice stretching unbroken from bank ...

(RNS) — Churches from Africa to Europe to Asia are registered to participate in Baptize the World, while the Museum of the Bible is set to host a hybrid broadcast event, airing footage of baptisms ...

In some evangelical churches, a once-staid ritual is returning to its informal roots — and things sometimes get “a little rowdy” along the way. Waves crashing over Paul Allen and Jimmy Scroggins of ...

The children's ministry at Royal Missionary Baptist Church is filled with young people who want to go to heaven. When the Rev. Isaac Holt was told one Sunday that 60 children accepted Jesus Christ as ...

For several years, membership in Southern Baptist churches has been in decline. The American denomination hit its peak in 2005 with 16.6 million members, and since then, communities have seen a steady ...