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PARIS, France (AFP) — A French Catholic priest was suspended Friday after a video of him smacking a crying baby during a baptism ceremony went viral, drawing widespread condemnation on social media. In footage posted on Twitter on Thursday, gasps can be heard when the 89-year-old priest, after ordering the infant he is holding to “be quiet”, sharply slaps his cheek. A few seconds later he smacks him again. The baby’s parents, visibly shocked, […]
By Dexter T. Manglicmot WASHINGTON D.C. (Eagle News Service) — Minister of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Matt Talens, would have never guessed that answering his phone one Saturday morning in October 2015 in his chapel office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, would eventually lead to the first-ever baptism of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. On the other end of the line was Joseph Crusoe who picked up a magazine of the Church at […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — It was truly a blessed Sunday morning last May 29, 2016 as hundreds were baptized in the the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) in the ecclesiastical district of Quezon City. The said baptism was held in the locale congregation of San Francisco and was officiated by Brother Arnel T. Verceles, Quezon City District Minister. He emphasized in his preaching the value of the true baptism done in the […]
