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 ...

Parents usually feel joy and anticipation on the day their child is baptized into the Catholic faith. Philip and Jessica Chan ...

Parolin inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord ... Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The ceremony also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Catholic Church’s annual ...

For 24 years, the Catholic community in the region has made a pilgrimage, gathering around its patriarch, to celebrate the baptism of Jesus on Jan. 12. Speaking from the window of the Vatican’s ...

Father Pérez, whose congregation of contemplative missionaries was entrusted with the care of the Catholic ... consecration ceremony of the altar of the brand-new Church of the Baptism erected ...

Baptism has been a symbolic way of joining the Church from the very start of Christianity. It actually predates Christianity; John the Baptist baptized Jews before Jesus came on the scene, and so ...

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as ...