The Minister for Education has described the practice of non-practising Catholic parents baptising their children in order to secure places in Catholic-run schools as "fundamentally disturbing". Wed, ...

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A viral photograph depicts a priest baptising a child using holy water from a toy water gun. But what really happened? Among the plethora of social distancing-inspired pictures which swept the ...

A pastor has drowned while baptising his church member in Blood River, at a village in South Africa. The police is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the middle-aged man. Limpopo ...