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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baptism Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and many in the Protestant denominations baptize infants. Baptists and Pentecostal Churches baptize only adults or children old enough to profess their faith.

Docho Eshete, a protestant clergymen from Ethiopia, died performing the baptism in a crocodile-infested lake. Credit: Roger de la Harpe/Getty Images ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police disrupt Protestant baptism ceremony. 17.08.2015, 16:27 4,479; The pastor of Blagodat church, ... Democracy party Dzianis Sadouski, who saw the incident, some tens of believers and the pastor ...

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 ...

About 200 people attacked the religious leaders as they were baptising Muslims. Some local imams filed charges against the clergymen who, together with scores of Protestants, were arrested by police.