At the stage’s center, designer Randy Wong-Westbrooke places a single chair on wooden planks that sit in a small baptismal font, which in turn is surrounded by a circle of sand.

The 4-year-old girl who police say was drowned by her father in a baptismal font inside a Catholic church in Healdsburg over the weekend, was identified Tuesday — hours before her father was ...

Alcalde Santiago Baeza Benavides, the gracious mayor of the small Spanish town of Santervas, in the Province of Leon, said Monday that his town would like to offer an exact replica of Ponce de ...

A Healdsburg father was arrested on suspicion of drowning his 4-year-old daughter in a church baptismal font and taking her unresponsive body to a police station, where he stood outside naked and ...

For some six centuries, the immense baptismal font at Siena's Battistero di San Giovanni, located just behind the Tuscan city's zebra-striped Duomo, has been put to regular use in the baptising of ...

The Church of the Holy Rosary in Edgewater was vandalized last week by someone who put human feces in the baptismal font, church officials said. The vandalism followed a series of thefts at the ...

The first baptisms in the famous font Matthew Tredik, a sixth-grader at Cathedral Parish School, has the distinction of being the first person to be baptized in the famous font.

Yet many North American Protestants have long used minimal water for baptism, having inherited small font dimensions from European forebears. The difficulty of heating large worship spaces and the ...

According to the Roman-Germanic pontifical in the 10th century, unlike today, baptism took place once a year, on Holy Saturday, as a collective baptism of infants or small children by immersion.