QASR EL-YAHUD, West Bank (AP) - Israel has opened the traditional baptism site of Jesus to daily visits. The location, where many believe John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the waters of the Jordan ...

U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 35, No. 3, Protestant and Catholic: The Reformation in America (Summer 2017), pp. 1-19 (19 pages) Contrary to the hostile receptions that greeted elite Catholic schools ...

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 Sunday ...

“She was baptized, with her household” (Acts 16:15) “He was baptized at once, with all his family” (Acts 16:33; 18:8 also implicitly implies it) “I did baptize also the household of Stephanas.” (1 ...

The founder of a prominent non-denominational movement in India has returned to the Catholic faith of his baptism, after more than a decade as a Pentecostal pastor and traveling preacher. Sajith ...

Several Protestant denominations are losing members, particularly the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist and other historic mainline groups that have not only been aging and shrinking but have ...

Part two of a five-part series exploring religious America: Today, just over half of all Americans are Protestants, worshipping in 300,000 congregations, in many hundreds of denominations — and, often ...

Q: I’m an avid reader and fan of your column and follow it in our local paper, the Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Penn.). I’m Protestant by upbringing, but my husband is Catholic. We attend a Catholic ...