Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"The Christian community welcomes you," the priest said to my son, George DeSales, on his baptism in St. Barnabas Parish's Holy Spirit chapel, following the rubric of the rite of baptism. That phrase ...

In her series "The State of Spirituality," Lisa Ling looks at the rise in adult baptisms after the pandemic. At a time when many are leaving organized religion, some Americans are choosing to deepen ...

Archbishop Felix Machado celebrated the rite of Christian initiation. The catechumens include many tribals, young people and people with a high level of education. Many false charges of proselytising ...

Christian denominations widely differ on teachings about baptism. Some say that it is right for baptism to be carried out even six weeks after a child is born while others have contrary opinions, ...

The number of adults receiving the sacraments of Christian initiation is increasing steadily in a country strongly affected by secularism. This year, 2.650 adults were baptized on the Easter vigil.

Michael Sean Winters has just posted about Sarah Palin and her possible “apostasy” by being baptized twice, first as an infant in the Catholic Church and later as an adult in the Assembly of God ...

Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years, the Catholic community in Malaysia has registered an increasing number of adults requesting baptism. Adults wishing to be baptized undertake a path ...