As pilgrims mark Epiphany, Jordan plans an ambitious project to upgrade place of Jesus's baptism.

View Baptism of Jesus Christ Third subject from the 13th vault of the Vatican Lodges painted by the famous Italian Renaissance artist Red chalk drawing (19th Century) Style of Sanzio Raffaello; Red ...

A California pastor is on a mission to hold the biggest mass baptism in world history. Mark Francey of Oceans Church in San Juan Capistrano, California, is gearing up for Baptize America, a one ...

What started out as a single baptism turned into about 200 students being baptized. At one point, head football coach Hugh Freeze waded into the water to support one student being baptized, senior ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It was a sea of hope at The Church of Eleven22's beach baptism event at Hanna Park in Jacksonville. Nearly 2,000 people publicly proclaimed their faith in Jesus among a huge ...

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Left: David Hockney standing beside his painting My Parents (1977), in the same year that he created it, with Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ (around 1437–45) depicted in the ...

In The Baptism of Christ, the most written about possibility is the stillness that Piero achieved. By contrast, think of Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43), and the impossibility ...

Today the River Jordan lacks its biblical proportions, but some 200,000 visitors still flock to the traditional spot for Christian baptisms in Jordan in a typical year. I watch as groups from the ...

Today the River Jordan lacks its biblical proportions, but some 200,000 visitors still flock to the traditional spot for Christian baptisms in Jordan in a typical year. I watch as groups from the ...