NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Shelby County mother faces contempt-of-court charges and possible jail time for baptizing her two children without the knowledge or consent of her ex-husband. This week the ...

A North Carolina mom started serving a week-long jail sentence for having her daughter baptized, according to reports. The 2016 baptism at St. Peter’s Catholic Church when the girl was 2 years old ...

CHARLOTTE, NC (WCMH) – A North Carolina mother is behind bars after she baptized her daughter without the permission of the girl’s father. Kendra Stocks has been ordered to spend seven days in jail ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte woman reported to jail Friday morning after she baptized her daughter. The court case goes back a couple of years to when Kendra Stocks and Paul Schaaf were in a custody ...

A North Carolina woman is spending a week in the county jail — because she had her daughter baptized. Kendra Stocks, of Charlotte, began her sentence on Friday after being found in contempt of court.

(RNS) Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing anything to block gay couples from having their children baptized. But a new policy drafted by a Wisconsin bishop is prompting worries ...

A Duxbury teenager accused of killing his father by repeatedly dunking his dad’s head in a local pond told police that his dad’s body was “possessed by a spirit” — and that he was “baptizing his ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — A Georgia man is accused of breaking into a Florida Panhandle church, causing several thousands of dollars worth of damage and then allegedly “baptizing himself” in the ...

Panelists Tonya Prewett and Josh Moran discuss how the Christian organization ‘UniteUs’ is conducting baptisms on college ...

A Massachusetts man killed his father while “baptizing” him in a pond — in an attempt to exorcise his alcoholic dad’s demons, prosecutors said Tuesday. Jack Callahan, 19, was arrested Monday hours ...