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“As a missionary, we didn’t have to receive special permission from somebody in order to baptize an undocumented individual,” she recalled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

He then excused himself to help baptize a woman near the stage.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

Román had come to the United States in 2021 for a short trip to baptize a relative.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

A priest had come to her home to baptize her 4-month-old daughter, Nikol, who was scheduled to undergo lifesaving heart surgery the next day.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

Once or twice a year I arranged for a priest to come and bless unions, animals, and machines, baptize children, and say a belated prayer for the dead.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Her church baptizes people in it, and she has seen people cross it on foot.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

But in an explanatory note accompanying its decision, it recalled that when a priest baptizes someone, it is actually Christ performing the sacrament, not the community.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Arkansas baptizes Texas in the cool, refreshing waters of SEC dominance.

From Fox News ● Sep. 12, 2021

With financial help from her boyfriend, she baptizes seven-year-old Diana.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

It has also attracted droves of new members, many of whom were baptized in the campus protests the way a previous generation was during the Vietnam War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

He was baptized at the school, and it inspired his father to get baptized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

In his recent memoir, Pratt recounted his conversion — actor Stephen Baldwin baptized him in a river during the 2009 season of the reality show “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

It was there that I would be baptized less than a year later and would be brought up in the Orthodox faith.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

What Mr. Porter said he did remember was wading into the church’s pool and baptizing himself — or, as he claims, having his head held down in the font by “something.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

“I get what it looks like,” he says of his new job, which doesn’t involve baptizing pop stars in bathtubs or preaching to throngs of adoring congregants.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

When asked what he would say if he were baptizing someone as a newly devout Bitcoiner, maybe in the warm waters of South Beach, Melder ad-libbed.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022

Behind the tub, a mural of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus stretches across the wall.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022

Mama made me a sling out of the same bolt of cloth she brought over to make the bed sheets and baptizing dresses for the African girls.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver