DALLAS — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday again spurned a constitutional ban on female pastors as the prohibition's proponents failed to move the needle on a contentious issue that has ...

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the ...

The Southern Baptist Convention narrowly retained its public policy arm and showed strong support for a proposed constitutional ban on women pastors despite the measure's failure to receive a ...

A yearlong NBC News investigation exposed decades of sex abuse and cover-ups in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, triggering a pastor’s arrest and calls for reforms ...

Domestic violence does not stop at the doors of the church. Studies show that rates of intimate partner violence among Christians are roughly similar to those in the general population. Nearly half of ...

A roundtable conference was held in early December in Lawton, bringing together pastors to discuss women in leadership roles within the church.

DALLAS — Southern Baptist representatives on Wednesday fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right, giving a vote of confidence to its public-policy ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Two women were caught on camera stealing from a pastor while church was in service on Sunday, according to church members. The Faith Lutheran Church of Anaheim, Calif. said it was ...