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.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 woman is serving jail time after baptizing her child. Kendra Stocks started her seven-day sentence in Charlotte on Friday. Other WRAL Top Stories "It's just very sad, it's all just a very sad ...

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 ...

Members of the Mormon Church are breaking church rules by posthumously baptizing victims of the Holocaust and the ancestors of celebrities like President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the ...

A naked man was caught “baptizing” himself in an Arizona church and arrested, police said. A woman reported seeing the 20-year-old man and called police at 2:42 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at One Life ...

Despite numerous controversies over dismissing gay Catholics from church posts and the U.S. hierarchy's campaign against same-sex marriage, Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing ...