ATLANTA – Southern Baptists recognized Student Baptism Sunday Oct. 26 during a season in American religious life when church ...

"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." ...

The early Church Fathers consistently affirmed the Catholic (and scriptural) belief about baptism, viewing it as a sacrament for the remission of sins and the regeneration of the soul. I aim to offer ...

Faith Baptist Church has enjoyed exponential growth during the last 30 months, said senior pastor Josh Rayborn, who took over ...

Asking a Baptist preacher to baptize is like asking Colonel Sanders if he wants a bucket of chicken. Somebody’s going to get dunked. So when a football coach in Villa Rica, Georgia asked to be ...

New rules also loosen restrictions on baptism, divorce, and parents of teenagers. For more than a decade, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board (IMB) disqualified candidates ...

Zion Baptist Church’s congregation is closing its 150th year in prayer. The church is holding a New Year’s Eve celebration and baptism from 10 p.m. to midnight, according to its website. The church, ...

For several years, membership in Southern Baptist churches has been in decline. The American denomination hit its peak in 2005 with 16.6 million members, and since then, communities have seen a steady ...

The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic Church officially recognizes as the site ...