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 ...

President Joe Biden speaks during a church service at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) President Joe Biden speaks ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

NBCUSA members and guests filled the 2,000-seat sanctuary of the historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for a three-hour service Monday (Jan. 13). Some 500 people planned to ...

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 ...

The pope greets a family at the feast of the Baptism of the Lord at the Sistine Chapel, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media “Today, each of you parents and the Church herself give the ...