Sitting around a wrestling ring, churchgoers roared as local hero Billy O'Keeffe body-slammed a fighter named Disciple.

For starters, the number of children of record (or infants added to the faith’s rolls) remained below 100,000, continuing a ...

Yet baptism is central to the Christian life: commanded by Jesus, taught by the apostles, and honored, practiced, and contemplated from church fathers like Augustine of Hippo and Cyril of ...

Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of ...

Church attendance in the U.K. has been declining ... he said it’s a bit “surreal” when baptisms are held between bouts. “It works both ways,” he said. “There’s people that come ...

England’s Wrestling Church Seeks Converts With Baptisms and Body Slams SHIPLEY, England (AP) — Sitting around a wrestling ring, churchgoers roared as local hero Billy O’Keeffe body-slammed a ...

He has the use of reason; 2. Knows how to give baptism, and 3. Intends to do what the Church intends in the giving of the Sacrament. Baptism is so necessary that God affords every opportunity for ...

This is Wrestling Church, which brings blood, sweat and tears — mostly sweat — to St. Peter’s Anglican church in the northern England town of Shipley. It’s the creation of Gareth Thompson ...

This is Wrestling Church, which brings blood ... he said it’s a bit “surreal” when baptisms are held between bouts. “It works both ways,” he said. “There’s people that come here ...