A Georgia high school football coach was fired after he held a baptism service for 20 of his players on school grounds last month, according to a report. The superintendent of Tattnall County High ...

Christians who practise believer’s baptism accept that a person needs to be able to claim Jesus as their personal saviour. The celebration of baptism is a way of showing that this belief exists, and ...

Police halted a baptism service after about 30 worshippers gathered in breach of national lockdown restrictions. Regan King, lead pastor at The Angel Church, Islington, defended his decision to hold ...

The Church of England has approved a new baptism service with no mention of the devil in an attempt to make the ceremony more accessible. The simplified wording was written after priests said they ...

Baptism must be seen near the heart of our faith and presented as significant, but not allowed to separate Christians into groups of resentment or condescension. It must not become the “water that ...

Church of England baptism services may be re-written to remove some references to Christianity. The plan for a new ‘baptism lite’ service designed to make christenings more interesting to ...

No mention of the devil or sin is made in the new version of the Baptism service in which parents and godparents are asked to "reject evil, and all its many forms, and all its empty promises". A ...

Worshippers from faith communities across London have been urged to abide by the coronavirus restrictions, after police broke up a baptism service with around 30 people attending. Met Police Commander ...

A church's baptism service that broke lockdown rules has been stopped by police. About 30 people had gathered at The Angel Church in Clerkenwell, north London, on Sunday in defiance of the national ...

The Church of England plans to rewrite the words of its baptism service to make the ceremony “accessible” to worshippers more familiar with the language of EastEnders than the Bible. By Tim Ross 10 ...