The Vatican‘s top office for the teachings of the Catholic Church issued new guidance this week clarifying that transgender people are able to receive the sacrament of baptism, but that gay people ...

The name given to the process or sacrament of welcoming a child into the church or faith community varies among denominations, which means you may be looking for a message for a baptism, dedication, ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WTSP) - A Florida community rallied around an 18-year-old man with a rare brain cancer whose dying wish was to be baptized in the Gulf of Mexico. Caden Speck, 18, is being ...

I asked to be received into the Catholic Church in 2007. Raised in the Evangelical Protestant tradition, I had for years been a devout Anglican Christian. I loved and still love the Anglican tradition ...

Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship recently baptized 4,500 people at Pirate's Cove Beach in Corona Del Mar, California — the site of the "Jesus Movement" baptisms in the 1960s. The ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. A reader raised by Jehovah’s Witnesses responds to our callout for ...