A Protestant pastor was killed by a crocodile during a baptism ceremony in an Ethiopian lake, according to the BBC. Docho Eshete and about 80 members of his congregation gathered Sunday morning at ...

Tragedy struck a mass baptism in an African lake when a crocodile leaped from the water and killed the presiding pastor. The Rev. Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on ...

A mass baptism along an African lake turned tragic when a crocodile crashed the ceremony and killed the presiding pastor. According to the BBC, the Protestant pastor, identified as the Rev. Docho ...

Tragedy struck a mass baptism in an African lake when a crocodile leaped from the water and killed the presiding pastor. The Rev. Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on ...

Commentator Lauretta Hannon tells the story of the time when she was a girl and her older sister took her to church. Baptism is a religious ritual that the faithful can go through at different ...

Protestant bishops warn that plans to restrict the role of religion in school admissions will damage their communities. In a strongly worded Holy Week statement, they said that proposals from ...

First, my students see baptism as purely symbolic. It does not do anything. Nothing “happens.” In terms of God’s action or presence, it is no different from any other spiritual practice.

Then four Marines -- from battle-hardened Echo Company of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment of the 1st Marine Division -- asked a Protestant chaplain to arrange a battlefield baptism.

There was sufficient parallelism between baptism and circumcision (cf. Colossians 2:11) for the Jewish-Christian father to expect the baptism of his children to follow his own as a matter of course.