When the young woman learned that her baptism into the Roman Catholic Church would be a thorough dousing, her reaction was short and blunt "Aaagh!" "You will get very wet," Monsignor Gerald Wilkerson ...

It’s not often that a person is baptized by immersion (complete submersion in water) at a United Methodist church. Most often the sacrament is done by either sprinkling (most common) or pouring water ...

(RNS) — On the first Saturday in May, Pastor Mark Francey stood in the chilly waters of Pirate’s Cove, a beach off the coast of Southern California, and baptized dozens of people, one by one, over the ...