The Vatican has issued a document explaining how baptisms performed with the words “in the name of the Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier,” or other words that try to avoid masculine terms, are invalid ...

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A priest resigned this month after his diocese announced that thousands of baptisms he had performed were invalid because he had changed a single word. He said, "We baptize you ... ," instead of "I ...

SALT LAKE CITYSALT LAKE CITY — A Las Vegas man injured while performing submersion baptisms in the name of the dead has sued The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for medical expenses. The ...

Southern Baptists reported a 2.2 percent increase in baptisms in 2009, stemming a four-year decline, but membership in the denomination fell and the sagging economy led to a drop in missions giving, ...