The local Christian community has a role in the celebration of infant baptism as well as in assisting parents in their child’s Christian formation. For that reason, it is the practice of the Roman ...

Q. 642. Is it wrong to defer the baptism of an infant? A. It is wrong to defer the baptism of an infant, because we thereby expose the child to the danger of dying without the Sacrament.

Even some consider the Catholic Church a cult for teaching on the necessity of baptism for salvation. On a similar issue, some object to infant baptism, claiming it to be invalid since an infant ...

A terrible thing happened to the mind of Baptists in the South when we became the majority religion of the South.

The baptism ceremony also allows parents and godparents to make a promise before God to bring the baby up within the faith of Christianity. Christian denominations that also practise infant ...

In Judaism, the infant is circumcised before it has a faith of its own to symbolise that it belongs to the Jewish people. In the same way, baptism of an infant occurs before the infant has a faith ...

As infant baptism became more common, these robes were adapted for babies and young children. Renaissance and Baroque Eras During the Renaissance and Baroque periods, baptism outfits for boys ...

John Smyth was the first Englishman (of record) who declared himself dearly in favor of believer’s baptism and organized a church based on the implications of that principle. Smyth, a graduate ...

At least 157 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, many of them ...

Welcome to August, folks, and the lion’s heart of Leo season. This month is wild, with retrogrades afoot and lessons aplenty.

Rafael Nadal and his wife Maria Francisca Perello recently held a baptism ceremony for their baby son in their hometown, Manacor, as per reports. The event was attended by their family and close ones.