This, published in 2023, found that the Church had received funds linked to African enslavement worth as much as £1bn in ...

The Right Rev Francis-Dehqani told MPs that the baptism process in the Church of England typically takes 10 to 12 weeks, while Rev Steve Tinning added that in the Baptist Church it is about six weeks.

Firth claimed that about 280 refugees who had been declined asylum status sought baptism at St Cuthbert ... at St Cuthbert’s to join the Free Church of England, has been approached for comment.

The issue of baptism has come to the political forefront ... his claim by someone from a Baptist church, rather than the Church of England, but the case has prompted strong debate on the issue ...

About 12 per cent of babies born in the diocese were given a Church of England baptism and 41 per cent of funerals were Anglican. These both represent the second highest number out of the 43 ...

Claims by a former Darlington vicar of the church being a "conveyor belt" of asylum baptisms have been branded as nonsense by the Church of England. The Diocese of Durham was responding to ...

Traditionally, baptism ceremonies were meant ... continental shrines,” he explains. The church in Steeple Bumpstead, a small village in eastern England, doesn’t have etchings of ships on ...

The Archdeacon asks: “Which is Mr Firth alleging: that the number of people who had a first failed asylum claim and then ...

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 ...

Holy water is put on baptised people by a church leader as a symbol of being cleansed and made ready for a new life for God. We see how baptism is ... at KS2 or KS3 in England, Wales and Northern ...

Southern Baptist congregations saw growth in baptisms, worship attendance and small group participation in 2023, while ...

Some asylum seekers see baptisms "as a ticket to something" and most baptism requests were when they were appealing an asylum claim, a vicar has told MPs. Rev Matthew Firth told the Home Affairs ...