Meanings of Baptism in the Catholic Church. Cleansing of Original Sin. The Catholic Church teaches that all humans are born with original sin, a legacy of Adam and Eve's disobedience.

At Grace Church in Waco, Texas, the Generation Z gender divide can be seen in the pews. It has the potential to reshape both politics and family life. Churchgoers watch a baptism at Grace Church ...

When 68 men and women from an indigenous community in Northern Kenya surrendered their lives to Jesus as part of an outreach and evangelism programme, they faced a difficult but common dilemma in ...

Jesus says to the Samaritan women, “…whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:14).

Pope Francis transformed women's roles in the Catholic Church without changing doctrine. His legacy: creating pathways for female leadership while maintaining tradition.

Through their Flint Water Relief Mission, Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, partnered with First Trinity for over two years, providing 20,000 cases of water to Flint residents ...

Baptize California is recruiting churches statewide to host synchronized baptism events on Sunday, May 19th, 2024, aiming for the largest simultaneous water baptism ever. On May 28, 2023, 4,166 ...

Some emerge from the water laughing and smiling. Others shed tears. But whatever their reaction may be, one thing is always the same. Baptism is a deeply spiritual, emotional and reverential ...

The reality, however, is that all men and women are invited and summoned to the waters of baptism. With proper preparation, anyone can be baptized and receive adoption by God the Father in Jesus ...

Cheryl Reid-Bartley, the founder of the Life Changing Ministries, addressed her congregation in a Facebook Live video, one day after the death of Robert Yap at a baptism service ...

For example, baptism must involve water, not wine, and consecrating anything other than bread during Mass renders the sacrament invalid. Similarly, since priests act in persona Christi, representing ...