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2. Navjote - Wikipedia

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   The term navjote is used primarily by the Zoroastrians of India (the Parsis), while sedreh pushi is used primarily by the Zoroastrians of Iran. The word 'navjote' is a Latinized form of the Parsi Gujarati compound of nav "new" and jote "reciter [of prayer]", "invoker", "sacrificer".

3. Immersion baptism - Wikipedia

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   A full-immersion baptism in a New Bern, North Carolina river at the turn of the 20th century. 15th-century painting by Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Florence. Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion (pouring) and by aspersion (sprinkling), sometimes without specifying whether the ...

4. Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region - Wikipedia

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   The Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, commonly referred to as the Amazon synod, met in Rome from 6 to 27 October 2019. Pope Francis announced on 15 October 2017 that a special assembly of the Synod of Bishops would work "to identify new paths for the evangelization of God's people in that region", specifically the indigenous peoples who are "often forgotten and without the prospect ...

5. Baptism - Wikipedia

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   [11] [12] [13] Baptism is also called christening, [14] [15] although some reserve the word "christening" for the baptism of infants. [16] In certain Christian denominations, such as the Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Assyrian Church of the East, and Lutheran Churches , baptism is the door to church ...

6. Naming ceremony - Wikipedia

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   A mother and newborn take part in a heathenry baby naming ceremony in British Columbia in 2007.. A naming ceremony is a stage at which a person or persons is officially assigned a name.

7. History of baptism - Wikipedia

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   John the Baptist adopted baptism as the central sacrament in his messianic movement, [26] seen as a forerunner of Christianity. [citation needed] Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Christians consider Jesus to have instituted the sacrament of ...

8. Sacraments of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   The number of the sacraments in the early church was variable and undefined; Peter Damian for example had listed eleven, including the ordination of kings. [4] Hugh of Saint Victor enumerated nearly thirty, although he put Baptism and Holy Communion first with special relevance. [5]

9. Infant baptism - Wikipedia

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   Infant baptism is seen as showing very clearly that salvation is an unmerited favor from God, not the fruit of human effort. [43] "Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of ...