Peruvian Indigenous spirituality joins Spanish Catholicism, the latter being cemented onto what was already there. A ...

Baptism manifests that promise, made as real as the people who’ve surrounded us with God’s love. As real as the water in that swimming pool where Papi dunked me into Christ’s resurrected life. The ...

1214 This sacrament is called Baptism , after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein ) means to "plunge" or "immerse"; the "plunge" into the water symbolizes the ...

Water is essential to life. Our bodies need this vital ingredient to survive, but this ingredient comes in two different ...

The first letter of Peter mentions the event of the flood, “…in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism ...

TikToker Cindy Baibe is now saved. She was baptised by her friend, Ghanaian pastor Ray Micheal. Her baptism video elicited mixed reactions from netizens.

Yet another idea suggests that Śmigus was the time for whacking willows, while Dyngus was the time for throwing water. While others believe the custom is related to the Baptism of Poland, the personal ...

For many worshipping groups in South Africa, such as Pentecostal churches, religious expression is closely tied to water. At the Fleurhof baptism, Pastor Nxusa paged through a weathered bible ...

Ntina Shitta was getting her baby baptised at a ceremony in Cyprus on Saturday. This is the moment a priest violently plunges a crying baby boy into water in front of his horrified mother during a ...

It's a way of expressing publicly that you're a Christian. There are lots of symbols in a baptism ceremony. The water can represent coming clean to God and starting a new life. For a Christian the ...