(RNS) The sprinkling-style baptism of a Dayton, Ohio, infant—a scene heartwarming and commonplace for Catholics and many mainline Protestants—is touching off accusations of doctrinal heresy in the ...

One of the grand old hymns of the faith is “Shall We Gather at the River?” written by Robert Lowery in 1864. That is exactly what a large crowd did Sunday afternoon, June 28, gathering on the bank of ...

"I don’t think my feet touched the floor at the Easter vigil of 1994," recalls Jennifer Pixler of Maryland. "I felt such love, knowing that God was wiping out all my sins when I was baptized." ...

POTTSTOWN>> The winter of 1857-58 was brutally cold. Temperatures stayed so low for so long that by February the Schuylkill River at Pottstown was frozen solid. With ice stretching unbroken from bank ...

MORRISVILLE – On Sunday, June 10, First Baptist Church of Morrisville went down to the Delaware River to baptize one of its newest congregants, Andrew Delahoz. Delahoz gave his testimony of how he ...

In some evangelical churches, a once-staid ritual is returning to its informal roots — and things sometimes get “a little rowdy” along the way. Waves crashing over Paul Allen and Jimmy Scroggins of ...

FLEMINGTON - Cherryville Baptist Church held its annual riverside baptism Sunday morning. This is the third year the church has done the riverside baptism, which took place alongside the Raritan River ...

Leaders cite missiological methods and the work of the Spirit as the reasons for the surprising statistics. During the COVID-19 pandemic ’s first year, the number of new believers harvested by the ...

Pope St. John Paul II, in his 2002 Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, proposed adding a fourth quintet of mysteries to be contemplated when praying the Rosary: the Luminous Mysteries. Leaving ...

Baptism has been a symbolic way of joining the Church from the very start of Christianity. It actually predates Christianity; John the Baptist baptized Jews before Jesus came on the scene, and so John ...