The baptism ceremony also allows parents and godparents to make a promise before God to bring the baby up within the faith of Christianity. Christian denominations that also practise infant ...

We don’t take it seriously enough. What is baptism? Is it necessary? Does it do anything? Who can receive it, and when, and how? These are just some of the questions my students carry into the ...

And baptism is a public declaration. It is a declaration to people around and to God that this is a new life for me. Old life's gone new life's arrived. NATHAN: I was baptised as a baby but some ...

CUMBERLAND Council is looking to capitalise on the falling number of Church of England baptisms with its secular baby naming ceremonies.