BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Orthodox Church will continue immersing infants in water during baptism ceremonies, it said on Thursday, rejecting calls across the country to change the ritual after a ...

Just as we wouldn’t leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told ...

When Jesus came to John to be baptized, Matthew tells us, “John tried to prevent him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, ...

Yordanovden, celebrated on January 6, is one of the most significant religious and cultural holidays in Bulgaria. Known ...

All theology is contextual. The oldest law book in Iceland, Grágás, which emerged sometime between the ninth and 13th centuries, preserves an instruction for emergency baptism when traveling with a ...

Detail of Sunnie Liu, "施洗 (To Baptize)" (2022), installation with televisions, buckets, baptism robes, sound tube, table, incense, and cushions (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) The naked body — or ...

Shared testimonies, collective singing, silent meditation and baptism rituals – these are all activities you might find at a Christian church service on a Sunday morning in the United States. But what ...