More than 7,750 people were baptized in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, on Saturday, an ...

More than 7,000 people were baptized Saturday in the waters off Huntington Beach, Calif., in what organizers called the ...

1214 This sacrament is called Baptism , after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein ) means to "plunge" or "immerse"; the "plunge" into the water symbolizes the ...

The first letter of Peter mentions the event of the flood, “…in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism ...

Baptism likely originated from earlier ritual practices. Forms of purification by water existed in ancient Judaism, for example, in the mikveh, a "purification bath." During Jesus's time ...

It's a way of expressing publicly that you're a Christian. There are lots of symbols in a baptism ceremony. The water can represent coming clean to God and starting a new life. For a Christian the ...

“This is like a new start for me.” Associate Pastor Jarrett Durden, who helped lead the baptism candidates to the water, said the baptism, though a shedding of the past, also signifies a ...