From The Church Times-
A JUDGE has ruled that a ten-year-old Jewish girl may be baptised as a Christian, even without the consent of her mother.
In May, His Honour Judge John Platt, sitting at Romford, heard the case of a child whose parents are both Jewish, but had not observed religious festivals or had her instructed in the faith. The girl's father converted to Christianity after he separated from her mother in 2010; she has been attending, at her own request, an Anglican church with him on the alternate Sundays when she is in his care.
During the summer of 2011, with the mother's agreement, the father took the girl to New Wine, a Charismatic Evangelical festival. On the way back from the festival, Judge Platt's judgment says, the girl "told her father that she had experienced an encounter with God and wished to be baptised". The father "was initially sceptical, being concerned that the child was . . . 'on a high' coming from the intense experience of the festival, and that she might later calm down and go off the idea". The father said that his daughter would have to wait, and he informed her mother of the idea.
In November 2011, the girl, without her father's knowledge, asked the leader of her Sunday school whether she could be baptised. The mother applied for a court order forbidding the father from having the girl baptised. The mother believed that her daughter should wait until the age of 16 to make a decision about being baptised.
More here-
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/10-august/news/uk/judge-grants-jewish-girl’s-baptism-wish
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