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

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

The audience murmured and clapped as he recounted a well-worn story about using water from Israel’s Sea of Galilee to baptize his children.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023

A Spanish friar records three earthquakes on the day he and his fellow missionaries baptize the Río Porciúncula.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

The basilica Mass during the vigil of Christianity’s most important day has become an occasion for pontiffs to baptize several adults from around the world.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

Like all villagers, we were required to ask the steward’s permission to be excused from work if ill, to grind our wheat, or bake it, to buy or to baptize our children.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

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

Once lawfully allowed in with provisional humanitarian status, they found our church — where they could be baptized and publicly profess their faith in Jesus — and legal help to begin their asylum request.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

Russell Brand, finding solace in Christianity amid rape and sexual assault allegations, reveals he was baptized over the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025

And so he became Otto, baptized with rejected milk.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

We like to merge worlds to create really absurd situations, so she was like, ‘What if it’s the NBA slam dunk contest, but with deacons baptizing babies at church?’

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

Pratt began baptizing parishioners in the brisk, rapid current.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

“I had one child in the elevator, the other I’m baptizing, and tomorrow we have a heart operation,” Tkachuk said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

“I am only baptizing in water, but someone is standing among you of whom you do not know. He is God’s Lamb, who is to remove the world’s sin.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver