More than 7,750 people were baptized in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, on Saturday, an event organizers say marked the largest single-day baptism in American history.

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We don’t take it seriously enough. What is baptism? Is it necessary? Does it do anything? Who can receive it, and when, and how? These are just some of the questions my students carry into the ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.

"Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 3:21) "For ...

St. Basil the Great (330-379) believed in “the baptism of salvation” and “being saved through baptism” and asked, “In what way are we saved? Plainly because we were regenerated through ...

He continued, "What I was disappointed not to see in the document was affirmation that in the right of baptism itself, whatever name the person has, we call it a Christian name [or] their ...

Baptism is, for Christian parents, one of the most important moments in their baby's life. Baptism was instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ as the single way of removing the original sin from our souls ...

Dr. Roger Barrier describes the biblical doctrine of the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" as the following: The Baptism of the Holy Spirit occurs at conversion (1 Corinthians 12:13; 6:19). It is not ...