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According to reports, the priest completely immersed the six-week-old boy, who was also born prematurely, during the service, but halted when the baby stopped crying and started to turn blue around the lips. Despite being rushed to hospital, the child died the next day while in intensive care.

Police have launched a criminal investigation.
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Concerns have been raised about the practice of dunking babies in other countries with Orthodox populations such as Cyprus and Russia after videos surfaced of children being fully and violently immersed in water despite screaming with distress.

Traditionalists argue that despite the dangers of dunking, most children escape unharmed from the practice.

Archbishop Teodosie Petrescu, an influential cleric from the conservative wing of the Romanian Orthodox Church, has rejected calls for changes to the baptism tradition.

“There’s no way for the ritual to change,” said Archbishop Petrescu. “These canons of faith will be available for another thousand years. That is why we will not change. We’re not intimidated.”

The archbishop also told the television broadcaster Antena3 that he prefers to baptise babies in cold water because it apparently “sharpens” their spirituality and is good for their health.

Anger as Florida lawmaker Greg Steube says transgender people ‘offend’ God
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The GOP member told the House he would begin his speech by giving them the “truth” as he read from Deuteronomy 22:5 in the Bible.

“A woman must not wear men’s clothing nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this,” he read.

“When men or women claim to be able to choose their own sexual identity, they’re making a statement that God did not know what he was doing when he created them.”

Judaism on gender:

"Male and female created He them." - Tanakh

Christianity on gender:

"When you make the male and the female one, so that the male will not be male nor the female female ... then will you enter the Kingdom.” - Jesus

Self-proclaimed Christian prophets saw a surge in popularity during the Trump administration. Ruth Graham, a national correspondent for The New York Times covering religion, faith, and values, joins CBSN to discuss her reporting on the theological debate over these so-called prophets and the impact they are having on American society.

John's Gospel account describes how Jesus, visiting Jerusalem for a Jewish feast (John 5:1), encounters one of the disabled people who used to lie here, a man who had been paralysed for thirty-eight years. Jesus asks the man if he wants to get well. The man explains that he is unable to enter the water, because he has no one to help him in and others go down ahead of him. Jesus tells him to pick up his bed or mat and walk; the man is instantly cured and is able to do so.

The Gospel then explains that this healing took place on the Sabbath, and the local Jews told the cured man that the Law forbade him to carry his mat on this day. He tells them that he had been told to do so by the man who had healed him. They ask him who this healer was but he is unable to tell them because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd.

Later, Jesus finds the man in the Temple, and tells him not to sin again, so that nothing worse happens to him. The man goes away and tells the Jewish people that it was Jesus who had made him well (John 5:15). The Gospel account explains that the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he was healing on the Sabbath.

Foreign policy
In August 2018, Hyde-Smith co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (s. 720), which would make it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[67][68]
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Confederate States of America
In 2007, Hyde-Smith voted for a resolution that praised a Confederate States Army soldier for his efforts to "defend his homeland".[80] During her first term in the Mississippi Senate, she proposed renaming a state highway after Confederate President Jefferson Davis, but the legislation did not pass.[81] In 2014, Hyde-Smith posted a photo of herself at Davis's home, Beauvoir, wearing a Confederate cap and carrying a rifle, with the caption "Mississippi history at its best!"[80]

Accusations of anti-Black racism and white supremacy
During her 2018 campaign for Senate, Hyde-Smith was accused of holding white supremacist sentiments because of her support for the Confederate States of America and for saying, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row" in a state known for lynchings. She refused to apologize.[82][83]

2021 United States Electoral College vote count and storming of the Capitol
On January 6, 2021, Hyde-Smith was participating in the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count debate about the Arizona election when Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. Led by Ted Cruz[citation needed], Hyde-Smith joined four other senators to vote to object to the certification of Arizona's electoral votes.[49] She and other senators were removed from the Senate floor to an undisclosed location shortly after the Capitol was breached. Her staff had to shelter in her office.[50] During the attack, Hyde-Smith tweeted, "Whatever frustrations any American may have, violence & destruction in the US Capitol, the seat of our democratic government, is unacceptable."[51] She later said she was scared and called the rioters "criminals who need to be prosecuted."[52]

After the Capitol was secure and Congress returned to session, Hyde-Smith objected to Pennsylvania's electoral votes, as led by Josh Hawley.[53] She said she based her decision on "the erosion of integrity of the electoral process." She also said her constituents "do not believe the presidential election was constitutional and cannot accept the Electoral College decision." Her decision was in contrast to fellow Mississippi senator Roger Wicker, who supported certifying the election.[54] The Jackson Free Press called on Hyde-Smith to "recant or resign" for objecting to the certification.[55]

In response to the attack on the Capitol, Hyde-Smith did not support invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to remove Trump from office for his role in the attack. She also said she would not vote to convict Trump in an impeachment trial.[56]