Last week a six-week-old baby died in Suceava, Romania during his baptism into the Romanian Orthodox Church. The priest is being held on manslaughter charges and a firestorm of anger has begun to be ...

Romania’s Orthodox Church is under pressure to change its baptism ritual after a baby boy died following a ceremony in which he was immersed three times in water. More than 59,000 people have signed a ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Orthodox Church will continue immersing infants in water during baptism ceremonies, it said on Thursday, rejecting calls across the country to change the ritual after a ...

Twitter users have been outraged after bizarre footage emerged on social media showing a Orthodox bishop violently baptising a baby in water. In the clip the bishop swings the naked child by its arms ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been banned for one year for performing a baby's baptism that was so violent it provoked outrage across Russia. Footage of the religious rite of passage shows a priest ...

Romania's Orthodox Church is under pressure to change its baptism ritual after a baby boy died following a ceremony in which he was immersed three times in water. Romania's Orthodox Church is under ...