This has been an unusual and exciting week: my congregation is about to baptize someone in our sanctuary for the first time in about eight years! For many churches, such a lengthy gap of time between ...

Archeologists uncovered the remains of the first Latter-day Saints baptistry in Utah County, built around 1875. As Deseret News reports, the excavation revealed an intact lay-out of one of the ...

The Church announced temple baptistries will open as part of an addition to Phase 2 of re-opening the temples. The baptistry in the Asunción, Paraguay temple is one of the 14 temples that will start ...

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Never, ever, use a wired microphone in a baptismal pool. Even a normally harmless leakage of stray volts into a microphone is lethal when a person is immersed in water. Make it your church policy that ...

The Church announced 39 temples around the world will enter Phase 2-B allowing the temples to open their baptistries for limited ordinances done by small groups. The Draper, Utah temple is one of 14 ...

A restorer works on the mosaic ceiling at the Baptistery of San Giovanni, one of the most ancient churches in Florence. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP) Restorers launched a groundbreaking project in ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Visitors to one of Florence’s most iconic monuments — the Baptistry of San Giovanni, opposite the city’s Duomo — are getting a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see its ceiling ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Visitors to one of Florence’s most iconic monuments — the Baptistry of San Giovanni, opposite the city’s Duomo — are getting a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see its ceiling ...