St. Paul in Col. 2:11-12 actually compares baptism to circumcision - an important religious ceremony for infant boys. (Jewish circumcision is anatomically inappropriate for girls.) St. Irenaeus in ...

For many faith leaders and congregants across Florida — particularly in churches with large Hispanic populations — the ...

According to the Almanac, Easter Sunday changes every year because it is fixed to a solar calendar and based on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar. It always occurs on the first Sunday ...

Candlemas closes the Christmas season. Bede pulled together threads from a network connecting Jesus’s birth and the redemptive sacrifice on the Cross making the new covenant adumbrated by the ...

BishopPaolo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, calls the “Church of migrants” to embrace Christian hope in his ...

Recently, reports of illegal “pushbacks”–an illegal practice of forcibly returning refugees from whence they came–in Greece ...

"By celebrating the Last Supper with his apostles in the course of the Passover meal, Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its ... has received baptism for the forgiveness of sins and new birth, and ...

Rising from her baptism in the Jordan River, an Indonesian Christian wears a gown depicting Jesus undergoing the same rite in the same river 2,000 years ago. The faith that began as a tiny Jewish ...

Petr Haimann was just three when he was sent to Terezin – but drawing with stolen pencils helped him survive the ordeal ...

Richard Martin Wilstätter was born in Karlsruhe on August 13, 1872. His father was a cloth merchant. In From My Life ...