In June 2000, the Miami Seaquarium officially opened one of the largest Nile crocodile exhibits in Florida. In Africa, the Nile crocodile accounts for more human deaths than any other carnivorous ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

What would drive a Protestant minister to give up his ministry, to wander in spiritual darkness for a time and eventually follow God’s call in a new direction? For Steve Dow, it was the truths of the ...

BUCHAREST -- The death of a 6-week-old infant after he was submerged while being baptized has sparked public outrage in Romania and led to calls for the centuries-old rite to be changed. The drama of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Max Weber's thesis that a "Protestant ethic" in a subset of Protestant sects created a "spirit of capitalism" is often interpreted as an ...

TEARING DOWN crosses from church spires may not sound the best way to win a promotion. But in Xi Jinping’s China, it might do the trick. In 2014 Xia Baolong, the Communist Party chief in Zhejiang, a ...