A Catholic church has recently been built ... for the pilgrimage explained the difference between the baptism given by St. John the Baptist, a common Jewish ritual cleansing signifying a desire ...

A BOURNEMOUTH church is preparing to mark its 150th anniversary celebration. Boscombe Baptist Church will celebrate the key milestone in March 2025. The church was founded in 1875 by a small company ...

No sooner had an educated churchwoman asked me about how many years make a Platinum Jubilee than a deacon of a local Baptist church asked me which moment, the hour, the day or the year of the first ...

As I write this, it is the 12th of January 2025. It is the first Sunday after the Epiphany. The Epiphany took place on the ...

On the Sunday after Epiphany, the Scripture reading is always the familiar story of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist ... tie for the baptized and their church. It is certainly a very ...

through the explanation of the meaning of stain-glass windows, paintings, sculptures, etc. The same will happen at the Baptism site; that is particularly symbolic. The Church is full of images tha ...

Biblical geography was highlighted last week as Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, consecrated a new church at the ... That is the meaning of baptism. There are limits to the theology ...

Early in 2001, as three of us were busy making plans for a new congregation, I wrote to pastors of congregations dually affiliated with the United Church of Christ ... simply a moral conviction, ...

Baptism represents not only entry into the Christian community, but also a gift of faith that parents and the Church offer to children. “Today, each of you, parents, and the Church herself give the ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Representing Pope Francis, the top Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known in the Bible as Bethany Beyond ...