Detail of Sunnie Liu, "施洗 (To Baptize)" (2022), installation with televisions, buckets, baptism robes, sound tube, table, incense, and cushions (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) Already a member?

Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor has become the ninth royal baby to wear the royal family's christening gown, a design which is steeped in history. The christening robe, which was also worn by ...

Sundays my mother took me to a First Baptist Church from ages five until 12. We rode with our neighbor Mrs. Williamson, her two sons, William and Robert. First Baptist (now Detroit's People's ...

*Yesterday (12-21-24), Denzel Washington took a profound step in his spiritual journey by being baptized at Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ (COGIC) in New York City, officially receiving his ...

Pope Francis welcomed 29 families to have their newborns baptized in the Sistine Chapel Sunday morning, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Pope Saint John Paul II began the annual tradition of ...

For the latest on the best punditry, analysis, and news in the Catholic blogosphere click on Big Pulpit. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John ...

Monaco’s five-month old royal twins, crown prince Jacques and his sister Gabriella, were baptized Sunday in the Catholic church of the tiny principality. The babies did not protest as Archbishop ...

QASR AL-YAHUD, West Bank, March 29 (Reuters) - On the western bank of the River Jordan, not far from the spot where Christians believe Jesus was baptised, experts have begun clearing thousands of ...

From the pure white of baptismal robes to the scarves that veiled female heads, garments worn for worship have for centuries been steeped in symbolism and tradition. That's still the case today, of ...