A baptism near Athens, Greece two weeks ago for the children of a same-sex couple has earned an official protest from the Greek Orthodox Church. Fashion designer Peter Dundas and longtime partner ...

Romania's Orthodox Church is under pressure to change its baptism ritual after a baby boy died following a ceremony in which he was immersed three times in water. Romania's Orthodox Church is under ...

SNOHOMISH — Ben Weatherhogge, 15, wasn’t afraid to plunge into the cold waters of Blackmans Lake on Jan. 6. The Everett High School freshman wasn’t doing a late New Year’s Polar Plunge. He did it so ...

The tragic death of a baby in Romania who drowned in the baptismal font has prompted thousands of people to call on the Church to change the ritual – and stop submerging new-born infants in water. A ...

Speaking to Georgia's religious and civil authorities on Saturday, Pope Francis affirmed the country's Christian identity, and called the Georgian Orthodox Church to recall the unity of baptism among ...

RUSSIAN Orthodox Christians in Oxford celebrated the end of the Christmas period and the baptism of Jesus. Members of the Russian Orthodox Parish of St Nicholas the Wonderworker walked from the Ferry ...

A convict is baptized into the Russian Orthodox church during a ceremony last week at the Butyirskaya jail in Moscow. Ten convicts _ two serving death sentences _ were baptized in the ceremony at the ...

Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - For the end of the "painful events" in Ukraine, the Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church want to look at the "spiritual ties between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, born ...

Romania’s Orthodox Church is under pressure to change its baptism ritual after a baby boy died following a ceremony in which he was immersed three times in water. More than 59,000 people have signed a ...