A Catholic church has recently been built ... for the pilgrimage explained the difference between the baptism given by St. John the Baptist, a common Jewish ritual cleansing signifying a desire ...

Mural from a Greek Orthodox church ... of baptism. In all four Gospels, Jesus' public life begins with his baptism in the waters of the Jordan River by his cousin John the Baptist.

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

Stewart, a longtime civil rights advocate, was born in Kansas in 1951 and moved to Phoenix in 1977. He is the longest-serving senior pastor in the history of a church that says it is the oldest ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

Exceptional World Bank Group-African Development Bank Collaboration to Connect 300 million People to Electricity by 2030 Dar es Salaam Energy Summit to Chart Pathways for Energy Transformation ...

To baptize the infant or not to baptize the infant? The answer to the question of infant baptism could depend on your denominational position, along with your interpretation of the Bible. Like many ...

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Yet today there are few African names in the global market for high-end spirits. Some entrepreneurs are trying to change that. Amma Mensah, the British-Ghanaian owner of Reign Rums, and Lola Pedro ...

A British expat family living the “American dream” have described their devastation of losing their business to the southern California wildfires. Mandy and Raymond Church moved to Los Angeles ...

Once one of the largest and most active Klan groups in America, the Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has more recently gained a kind of "Keystone Kops" reputation on the white ...