Over 2,000 clergy and laity have signed a petition calling for the Church of England to withdraw guidance on “transgender welcome” services, warning that celebrating sex changes could “harm” children.
Pope Francis told young mothers gathered Sunday for the baptism of their infants not to be afraid to breastfeed their children during the ceremony because “the Lord wants it.”
Fewer than half of children in Sweden have been baptised by the Church of Sweden in recent years with analysts claiming that the dramatic drop is connected to the government’s mass migration policies. In 2000, around 73 per cent of
A North Carolina mother is serving a week in jail for having her daughter baptized against the father’s will.
In a bizarre scene that could have been lifted from a Francis Ford Coppola film, the son of Sicilian Mafia boss Totò Riina returned to his native town of Corleone to stand as godfather in his niece’s baptism, an act now denounced by the local bishop.
In a Sunday ceremony, Pope Francis urged women to feel free to breastfeed their children in the church, “just as the Virgin Mary nursed Jesus.”
A young boy in Kentucky was so eager to be baptized that he decided to baptize himself.
In the latest scuffle over gender issues, the Vatican has come down squarely in favor of the traditional male-female distinction of human beings, banning transgender persons from being godparents posing as the opposite sex from which they were born.
Gangster rap artist Webbie spent Easter Sunday sitting in the pews of a Louisiana church, and decided to get baptized after he said he felt convicted by God.
