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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"They have been bribed with, if they are very very good while daddy is having his baptism, they can go for a little paddle in a minute." Walking in water in the De Lank River At the centre of the ...