NEW YORK (RNS) Religious rituals once shrouded in mystery are becoming less private — more open to photography, video, even tweets from the pulpit. An exhibit at New York’s International Center of ...

Eliaz Valdez and Javier Lugo's paths to baptism couldn't have been much further apart. For 11-year-old Valdez, being baptized as a Jehovah's Witness was somewhat of a rite of passage in his family.

A Southern Baptist megachurch pastor in North Carolina, already under fire for buying a $1.6 million house, is in the spotlight for “spontaneous baptisms” that turned out to be not nearly so ...