A North Carolina mom started serving a week-long jail sentence for having her daughter baptized, according to reports. The 2016 baptism at St. Peter’s Catholic Church when the girl was 2 years old ...

Plymouth Congregational Church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Peter Luckey holds Michael Perkins, son of Mike and Jesse Perkins, during a baptism ceremony. Plymouth Congregational Church associate pastor, ...

(RNS) Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing anything to block gay couples from having their children baptized. But a new policy drafted by a Wisconsin bishop is prompting worries ...

A woman is serving jail time after baptizing her child. Kendra Stocks started her seven-day sentence in Charlotte on Friday. Other WRAL Top Stories "It's just very sad, it's all just a very sad ...

Southern Baptist leaders would rather ‘the only consistently growing group in baptisms’ be shrinking. SBC leaders were so grieved over its dwindling evangelistic effectiveness that they appointed a ...

I was watching a movie not long ago, in which Jesus was being baptized. As he walked down into the waist-deep water of the Jordan River, greeted by John the Baptist, I thought, “OK! This is it. At ...

Despite numerous controversies over dismissing gay Catholics from church posts and the U.S. hierarchy's campaign against same-sex marriage, Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing ...