A church's baptism service that broke lockdown rules has been stopped by police. About 30 people had gathered at The Angel Church in Clerkenwell, north London, on Sunday in defiance of the national ...

Yet, at the Community of Faith Church’s first-ever outdoor baptism for the homeless, “Alive by Faith,” a long line wound toward the portable baptismal pools, where one by one, men and women stepped ...

An Olympia church is considering its legal options after the state of Washington denied its request to hold a baptism ceremony at a park on the grounds of the Capitol. Officials at Reality Church had ...

The swimming pool being set up at Koinonia Christian Center Church on Saturday is not to welcome summer. It is to welcome sinners. The church, at 1405 S.W. Greenville Blvd., will host a citywide ...

The Church of England has approved a new baptism service with no mention of the devil in an attempt to make the ceremony more accessible. The simplified wording was written after priests said they ...

The Church of England plans to rewrite the words of its baptism service to make the ceremony “accessible” to worshippers more familiar with the language of EastEnders than the Bible. By Tim Ross 10 ...

From the beginning of his priesthood in 1995, the Rev. Andres Arango performed the sacred ritual of baptism. Or so he believed. For a quarter-century, Father Arango baptized thousands of children and ...

Since 1947, the Ashley Tabernacle Church of God in Christ has held an annual baptism service in the Susquehanna River at Columbia. Borough resident and photographer Joe Lintner captured some scenes ...

The new service will be offered as an alternative to the traditional version found in the Common Worship prayer book Credit: Photo: Alamy The Church of England has been accused of “dumbing down” its ...

PERDIDO KEY, Florida and ORANGE BEACH, Alabama - More than 2,000 people attended an Easter service Sunday morning held at the Flora-Bama Lounge, followed by a baptism in the waves of the Gulf of ...

Michael Nazir-Ali said the Church had done away with key elements of the service The Church of England has been accused of "dumbing down" Christian teaching by removing the requirement to repent sins ...

The Church of England has been accused of "dumbing down" Christian teaching by removing the requirement to repent sins and reject the devil in an alternative baptism service. Michael Nazir-Ali, the ...